So goodbye, 2020. It’s been, well, surreal. As I, like many of the other rough beasts out there, slouch towards our proverbial Bethlehems to be born, I started thinking about what possible good points, positive takeaways, we could all salvage from this dreadful dumpster fire of a year. And I came up with a few […]
Fiction
Number 9 Pack Rat
Story #9 has been published! I had my ninth story, “Threat of Rain,” published in Adelaide Literary Magazine, both on their website and in their December 2018 print issue. I’m really excited about this story being published for many reasons, but the one reason that is the most surprising is the theme of this post. […]
Making a Scene
I’ve been thinking a lot about making scenes. Not that I do that in public often, but I sure do it a lot when I’m writing. So to clarify, I’m talking about the scenes writers craft when telling a story, not the fracas or tumult that can result when people behave badly in public, although […]
Off to the Mountain!
I‘m off to the New England Young Writers’ Conference today, and I’m pretty excited about it! The last time I was at Breadloaf was three years ago, and the experience was just awesome, so I’m hoping this go around will surpass the last one. I have a student going this year, which is very […]
Number 8: a Flurry of New Material, and a New Medium
Number eight is in the books! My eighth story, “Left Field,” was published on May 3, 2018 in Lit Up magazine. Lit Up (link here) is an online magazine housed at Medium, which in all honesty was new to me until about a month ago. In that time, I have joined the blogging platform, published […]
On the Listening
“They go on…they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they […]