Three West

Movie Review: Siesta

Ahhh Siesta, a movie that has always left a lasting impression on me. The film is an adaptation of the fiction novel Siesta: A Super Natural Love Story by Patrice Chaplin starring Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Julian Sands, Isabella Rossellini, Grace Jones and Martin Sheen. I was in 6th or 7th grade when this [...]

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Fatherless Child

by Tressa Sanders There are times when one cannot even begin to comprehend the frailty of the human psyche. It is at these times when cruelty becomes the weapon of choice; its force twisting and burrowing into the depths of one’s mind; pulling from it, its worst fears; its deepest insecurities. What then does the world [...]

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Expectations

By Tressa Sanders Hot sun rays kiss your skin Downy cotton clouds fill your eyes as they dance by The smell and feel of heat fills you with a deep, erotic, warmth Illuminated beauty surrounds you A beautiful day is what I’m expected to be I, the thunderstorm You are swimming in the sun’s rays It’s life penetrating your being My darkness looming in [...]

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