Indian Periodical

By Mark Antony Rossi Being a parent is not a thankless job, it is a hopeless job. Regardless of your values passed or the time you spent with them, children emerge before your eyes as unique creatures. If any good has rubbed off is perhaps the only hope we can […]

By Mark Antony Rossi The life of a modern writer is a frantic search for a core identity in a world that changes colors, borders and genders faster than the ink can dry in the history book. Authenticity is a highly prized asset in a confusing age of artificial postures […]

By Mark Antony Rossi My mother said I came out swinging. She was a nurse and often her descriptions bordered on pornographic. God Bless her but I really don’t need details about my mother’s birth canal. Not ever. Maybe it’s a Jersey thing but I was not a person to […]

By Mark Antony Rossi  What is progress in a society that buries yesterday while holding endless candle vigils in search of remembrance. What do we learn from learned members of the community, if every utterance is a talking point crafted in a closed meeting. What do we hope for tomorrow if […]

By Mark Antony Rossi The ritual of religion can be comforting in a complex world. But too often we trap ourselves in a security blanket of excessive belief and forget our instinctual duty to help our fellow humans. Recently, I had another experience that reminded me how irrelevant religion has […]

By Mark Antony Rossi In the past two months India and New Zealand have been attacked by racist terrorists killing over seventy-five innocent people.  Wars, genocides and man-made famines are still common place in the 21st century. The same century that perfected reusable space capable rockets built by private corporations. […]

By Mark Antony Rossi In the world outside of the arts no one, even the hiring party, trusts the mercenary. They are loyal to currency. They trust themselves above all else. Integrity in the modern day is a trait of those who pay others to do their dirty work. So […]

By Mark Antony Rossi I used to be one of those people that rolled their eyes when told the body was a sacred temple. I was young and after a few events that cheated death I thought spiritualizing how I used my body was a curtailment of Liberty. Plus I […]

By Mark Antony Rossi What is jealousy but a public display of laziness. To encounter such fools brings me feelings of furious rage. You want what I got. Got out and get it yourself. It’s a free country. But the jealous are insecure idiots who would rather tear down the […]

By Mark Antony Rossi But I know that’s not true. Even with regular exercise I feel the disappointed Earth questioning my existence. We need strength to be human in this day of machines. I might add we need strength to withstand the deathly beauties of Nature as well. If you […]