Journalism.
SCIENCE
Earth’s oldest known earthquake probably triggered by plate tectonics
Science News
Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics. The temblor struck more than 3 billion years ago.
The rocks preserve telltale signs of ancient submarine landslides that tend to occur in response to giant earthquakes set off by some collisions of slabs of the planet’s crust, geologists Cornel de Ronde and Simon Lamb report February 27 in Geology.
YEAR IN REVIEW
Phoenix & Cricket
I am sitting at a table in a house on a hill somewhere on the California coast. It’s morning, it’s almost the end of 2023, and I can hear my nephew talking. He’s just a year and a half old, and he’s still in his crib. I look outside. It’s gray and it’s raining, and I look back at my journal at the blank page where I’m writing about 2023. I look outside again and I see a very tiny door. It’s one of those fairy doors that’s only about six inches tall. The door is for my nephew, whose parents hope that the door will help his budding imagination flourish.
Fiction.
SHORT FICTION
Phoenix & Cricket
The man stared at the leather suitcase that sat closed on the floor. He glanced around his apartment, where the whitewashed walls were bare and his bedroom and all the other rooms were empty.
When he closed his eyes he saw his home as it had been: shelves brimming with books, little ghost lights strung up for Halloween, and a black and white photograph hanging on the wall.
SHORT FICTION
Phoenix & Cricket
The opera music played from the man’s headphones as he and the woman hiked the gravel road next to a field of wheat. He was not talking to her because he was angry, and also because he liked how his music played as a blue and yellow airplane with a propeller dipped and rose overhead as if playing with the clouds, or dancing to his songs.
She walked a little bit ahead of him. He was angry because she had not looked at him in days, which told him something was wrong.