Photo: James Abbott Some people feel a need to be silent, but I need to look at myself in the mirror, scream, smash things, and tear up my own writing. That’s not so bad, it really isn’t, because all…

Profile photo: Chandan Kumar  Photo: Michael Pham If only people loved one another and learned to save money, if only the children at the orphanage could get foster parents, if only the sun shone bri…

Photo: Barn Images/ ift.tt/1PhXbX2  Since you intend to kill yourself anyway, why don’t you fit your death into our plans? We need heroes, and it’s all the same to you, he…

A monument featuring singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky in Podgorica, Montenegro. Photo: Nico Trinkhaus Nestled between Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania, Montenegro (“black m…