Samir Amin amin@cassetteradio.com I was born in New York City in 1977. I was in California in college and I couldn't hack it; I think it was the sunlight and the consistent weather. I moved to Providence and like so many found Greenfield more to my liking. I'm not leavin'. I organize the Greenfield Writer's Collective. I sometimes write for the Greenfield Journal and I edit the Spotlight insert. They should have said prose is violence.

"Insults are mysteries. What seems to the bystander to be the cruelest, most destructive sledgehammer of an assault, whore! slut! tart!, can leave its target undamaged, while an apparently lesser gibe, thank god you're not my child, can fatally penetrate the finest suits of armour, you're nothing to me, you're less than the dirt on the soles of my shoes, and strike directly at the heart."