Tyler Sage lives and teaches in California. His fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, The Common, Bright Lights Film Journal, The L.A. Review of Books, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. You can find him at tksage.com.
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A Beacon in the Sand
It is this force, this idea of progress, with which we need to contend.
September 28, 2015
