Carol Scheina – Factor Four Magazine

Issue 26: August 2023

The Lie You Live With by Carol Scheina

ByFactor Four Magazine July 30, 2023July 30, 2023

For my first four years, I never heard a lie. From the day I was born, Mom and Grams swaddled me in a fuzzy blanket, then wrapped my life in cold, hard truth. “Lies can be warm,” Grams said, deep in her corduroy rocking chair. “You’ll want to nestle into them. Some lies are meant…

Issue 11: May 2022

With a Palette of Rock and Magma by Carol Scheina

ByFactor Four Magazine April 27, 2022

The planet couldn’t suppress the shiver of excitement rippling over its surface when a transport landed in a ring of fire and smoke. Its first visitors! How air-light their steps, so miniscule and fragile. It tried to stay stone-still as they ambled about. Look! the planet thought. See my ravines? Like rivers of stone. That…