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Over the next few weeks, we're going to serialize Alphabetic Karma, a short story originally published by Hawkshaw Press. Sign in every Wednesday and Sunday to get the next paragraphs. When we left Kimmie last, she had been dumped in a downtown park by her father. ****** . . . She slumped on the other end of the bench, stared out over the park, and asked, “Are you in some kind of trouble?” “You could say that.” She was in her mid-twenties go

Over the Next Few Weeks, we're going to serialize Alphabetic Karma, a short story originally published by Hawkshaw Press. Sign in every Sunday to get the next paragraphs. ****** The second time my parents threw me out, I already knew the streets couldnʼt work for me. Iʼd learned enough the first time. I needed to stay with a relative somewhere. My moments of revelation in my first journey into the badlands still burned. My father went so far

Bereaved The last nephew has spoken his eulogy: the minister leads a prayer then closes the fat book shrouded in a black binding. Against...

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

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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...