SHIMMERS IN THE DARKNESS

I recently read a book about narrative form. Wait, don’t stop reading! The book is Meander, Spiral, Explode , by Jane Alison, an author...

In 1986, Robert Shapard and James Thomas edited the inaugural offering in what would become a series of story collections. Sudden Fictio...

I began this blog in October of 2010, at a time when I was beginning to envision myself as a writer. Sure, I had always written—had fin...

When my grandmother—my mother’s mother—was dying, she was in and out of consciousness, not always lucid, and she often confused my mot...

It’s that time of the year again, the end (or near the end), when we readers revisit the books that impacted us, the stories that made u...