Nicole Oquendo is the author of the poetry chapbooks some prophets (2015, Finishing Line Press) and self is wolf (2015, dancing girl press). She is the Nonfiction Editor of the annual Best of the Net anthology, serves as an Assistant Editor for Sundress Publications and Flaming Giblet Press, and is the Managing Editor of The Florida Review. She lives in Central Florida, where she writes, paints, translates, and teaches. You can find her essays in DIAGRAM, Gulf Stream, Storm Cellar, and more.
The first execution by electric chair was a result of rivalry. Thomas Edison suggested the best way to produce instantaneous death by electricity was to use the alternating current electricity of his opposition, George Westinghouse, not the direct current electricity Edison used in his own street-lighting projects. Surely, he argued, alternating current electricity was more dangerous, and therefore should be… Read more →