J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

EastEnders’ Mark Fowler tries to convince his dad Grant Mitchell to return to Walford next week, as Nigel Bates battles a serious case of pneumonia. Will Grant accept Mark’s request to reunite with ...

"Has your journey been good?" a key character asks me, in reference to all my years of adventuring. We’re a few hours into Final Fantasy XIV's latest expansion, Endwalker. "Has it been worthwhile?" My ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...