jeff wing - a writer

“So I wait in line, get up to the front, tell them my story. Then, you know— ‘I’m an American.’ ‘Oh—you’re an American? Well, this only...

..What Sir Laurence Olivier and Bruce Campbell do have in common, though, is that both their breakthrough roles had them working with...

...Pike slowly turns his torso-encasing 25th century wheelchair to face them (and us), and we see the full effect of Delta rays on...

He owned the 70s; the good 70s, not the shamefaced 70s. Paul Williams. You know him. Hai Karate aftershave, Lancer’s sparkling wine. His...

A guy falling 800 feet into the sea in a broken, flaming machine – it has the unfortunate distancing force of a fable...

Between bites of bagel, Joe Schneider—late of Schneider Autohaus—is patiently explaining why it’s so hard to land a spaceship on the...

When Olga Duncan disappeared from her Garden Street apartment, her newish husband Frank wasn’t terribly concerned at first. We were less...

Your world is a wildflower-carpeted madhouse; and that's just for starters... Spring has arrived. Our unfortunate fealty to the numbing...

The Universe giveth, and the Universe taketh away (to paraphrase), as has been seen. John Ridland, UCSB Professor Emeritus of English,...

The pedestrian’s stern expression is actually beaming at you a kind of brutalist forgiveness. So I finally checked my privilege. What do...

Sharing a house in Goleta and surviving on baked potatoes and stolen frat-house boxed wine (we owe you, Sigma Nu) life was good; great...

In 2015, Kerry Witzeman decided to stop in at the doctor to see what the deal was with a nagging little urinary tract thingy she couldn’t...

In modern sociological terms what we’re talking about is a Herding Instinct Proclivity (HIP). The Patty Duke theme says it best: “Meet...

1997 was, after all, the thrillingly futuristic year the Space Family Robinson was said to have left Earth in their roomy flying saucer,...

Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden will be tended and cared for in actual perpetuity—like Bruce Dern’s space-borne forests in the sci-fi...

The string-powered hands worked like real ones. His immediate field of vision, though, did not illuminate a path from Haskerdijken to...

As he neared the end of his time on Earth, Clyde crazily wished aloud for the sort of thing that compels uneasy laughter from...

When, at 15 years old, Davie was mightily popped in the left eye by a schoolyard chum in a brief tussle over a girl they both liked, the...

Inside TJ’s, the cool-looking diagonalized aisles create a spiritual and spatial confusion that has artfully tattooed shoppers bumping...

The monstrously implausible sequence of cosmic events to which we owe our existence is not entirely credible. Why does the country seem...

I would rather have a fulsome bee beard go angrily wrong than suffer a stranger doing that two-handed chopping thing I saw once on the...

The brain specialist, though, was not impressed. “I’m not going to stand here and listen to this!” he barked, and whirled out of the room...