Failure20111020115700
Failure
October 20, 20110 comments
I took a break from my WIP today, and spent the morning working on a short story. I’d already written fifteen pages or so about this char...
So to Speak journal20110728105100
So to Speak journal
July 28, 20110 comments
My short story “Flight” has won first place in So to Speak‘s fiction contest. It will run in the fall 2011 issue. I’m glad t...
20101110122100
November 10, 20100 comments
Languishing stories, when to let go How is it that some stories never escape from my “stories in progress” folder, languishing there, only halfway thr...
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It20100129094900
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
January 29, 20100 comments
A writer friend sent me Maile Meloy’s new short-story collection, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. Here’s the first paragraph of the first story, ...