“Our oscillation between / extremes leaves / scattershot footprints …”
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Welcome to my blog! Drop by every week or so to read new stories, poems and thoughts on the writing process.
Continue readingThe Art of the Short Story
Stuck on your short story? This post might help you figure out a way forward.
Continue readingThe Contextual Importance of Eye Contact
“You see mother was always asking me about the place so I thought “it” was the important. But it’s not, the place isn’t, important but the context “is.” The sweat and the palm and the air-drowning goldfish can be in Boca Raton or Boise or Prague or even Yourtown, and maybe it is in Yourtown (you don’t know, but now you’re suspecting); it’s the context of it that’s mattering to the air-drowning goldfish whose eyes are deadening, deadening, dead.”
Continue readingTouching
We literally vibrate when we listen to music.
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