Silhouette Magazine: Virginia Tech’s go-to for all things creative expression. Send in your submission for critique, wait a little bit, and get published! It’s a beautiful, well-executed mission, but the magazine can only feature you if your forms of creative expression fall into the categories of poetry, prose, art, or photography. Fundamentally, that comes from the limitations of the printed medium, but the Blog has no such limitations: it’s the lawless wild west of Silhoue

I was impassioned to talk about this after watching Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” a couple of nights ago, and the passion has not faded. With Halloween just around the corner, I want to share my opinion on who the real monster is in Frankenstein’s story (Spoiler: it’s not him). Let me first make it clear that I don’t mean Victor Frankenstein: I mean his creation. The whole “Don’t you mean Frankenstein’s monster?” is an outdated pedantic way of viewing him because, in my