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A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making...

Loch Marie and Ben Slioch, With No Particular Link To This Article Be extremely patronizing about alcohol distilled from barley. It's not...

Bruno Schulz Self Portrait Bruno Schulz, an art teacher and painter in Drogobych, Poland, scribed three literary works of art and then...

Another Take on Writers and LLMs

The Moth continues to scuffle up readers who get the book. I particularly liked this review -- Ryan put a lot of work into it. What if...

Dubliners take Joyce's Ulysses as it is, and on this day, read it aloud, on the street, cover to cover. Outsiders are less kind. From the...

This reader gets the ethos of the Moth: "  I could not help but root for The Moth." Hard Neighborhood for an Insect, Even A Death Head...

Here's Some Hints on Improving Hybrid Zooms Or Google Meet, WebEx, and Jitsi As writers circles become less local and more connected...

Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 5 Broken By Its Own Weight Loose Sentences That Break Under Their Own Weight: This set of examples is...

And Who Is The Elusive Seren One of my sadnesses is that I shall not be able to read this book again for the first time. But being a...

Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 4 Take Five Minutes to Fall Off A Cliff Subordinate trailing clauses with past participles and past...

Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 3 Outfox Your Bad Writing -- Focus on The Sentence Introductory Clauses with infinite (“ing”) verbs:...

Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 2 Hemingway Throwing A Baseball in a Bar The Three Beat Drum: Think you’re Hemingway? Live for short...

Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: #1 The Passive Voice: Your goat wrecked my garden – versus – My garden was wrecked by your goat. Ready...

Book Launches Today In 1846 in North America, the stakes couldn’t be higher for the US and Mexico. Polk has risen to the Presidency by...

What Keeps Us Coming Back

Here’s a 1000 word story published in 2024 by Manzano Mountain Review. I based it on an obituary and a house in Galveston, Texas. Living...

Gilgamesh Hanging Out With His Lion Meeting for NETFLIX Concept Team Scott Archer Jones History of the Story: In the third millennium,...

We're at the New Mexico Book Association at Booth #149 Selling The Moth , and our other books --- Come on by and see us -- March 15-16 on...