Connecting with “Foreboding” by Alissa Nutting
by Jasmine Marks · April 29, 2019Grief makes us different people. There is a clarity and thoughtfulness that is based in the loss of someone or something dear to you. You begin [...]
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Geoff Bouvier’s “Cosmic Joke” and Human Sexuality
by P.K. Korankye · May 06, 2019Geoff Bouvier’s “Cosmic Joke” from Five Points Volume 17, No. 3 reminds me of the core of what drives the human need to have a sexual [...]
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Connecting with Jennifer Haigh’s “In Spite of Everything”
by Imani Benjamin-Wharton · April 27, 2019Trying to make your voice heard is hard, especially when the people around you don’t want to hear what you have to say. This caught my [...]
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Connecting with Brad Wetherell’s Snafu
by Ashlin Gopichund · April 25, 2019Sometimes in our childhood, we have the feeling we are witnessing someone else’s story. A story that is hard to comprehend, and sometimes, a story we [...]
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Viet Dinh’s “Substitutes”
by Alexis Hill · April 24, 2019Viet Dinh’s “Substitutes,” first featured in Volume 11, Number 3 of Five Points provides a new personal perspective into the communistic rule in Vietnam. Typically, stories that [...]
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Reflecting on “The Addict’s Mother: Birth Story”
by Allison McCallum · April 23, 2019We’ve all been exposed to some sort of addiction, whether it be our own or someone else’s. Either way, it’s one of the hardest things anyone [...]
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