Photo: James AbbottSome 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 I…

Profile photo: Chandan Kumar  Photo: Michael PhamIf 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…

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…

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