Tag Archives: creative writing

May ’15 Prompt-a-thon: Quantum Fiction

Posted on May 7, 2015 by

Here I go, on a nerd voyage. But there is a literary ending, so all will be well. Just to preface, if you haven’t been reading along and don’t know it yet, I am a huge lover of all things sky: … Continue reading →

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Meto-friendly news: rawboned live!

Posted on April 23, 2015 by

April rawboned is live! Congratulations to Trisha Winn, who decided to poke the bear and encourage others to do the same. I like bears, but this one will take its lumps for the sake of excellent reading. So how do … Continue reading →

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Meto-News, April ’15: Moon City Review Arrives!

Posted on April 22, 2015 by

I am happy to present my short piece, “Drafts”, in this spring’s Moon City Review, 2015. “Drafts” is another from the collection that includes “The Problems of Odessa” (REED/ John Steinbeck Fiction Award, 2014), “House of Broken Dishes” (reDivider/Beacon Street Prize, … Continue reading →

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Things I Can Say about Spock, an Ex-Academic, and Power Now that They’ve All Bumped into Each Other in My Head

Posted on March 2, 2015 by

Of course it is sad, I am sad, to know that Leonard Nimoy is gone. With unashamed sentiment, I have read some lovely eulogies, tributes that address fully what a fan should say about the man and his body of … Continue reading →

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Meto-things: What’s Up

Posted on February 27, 2015 by

Here is where things are at: 1 My partner in all things of art and life, David L. White, has three poems up at The Knicknackery, “Low Tide”, “Crochet”, and “At Oven’s Door”, which I can’t even read because it breaks me. Intensity. I … Continue reading →

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Prompt-a-thon, with Pictures

Posted on February 19, 2015 by

I have learned something valuable: Prompts are well liked. I guess I get a little frustrated with prompt-driven writing because it was so much a part of the public school classroom. I, the student me, hated grade school (and everything … Continue reading →

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Meto-News 2/10/15: tNY Anthology Arrives and Other Intriguing Thoughts

Posted on February 10, 2015 by

As previously promised, here are my tNY Book IV contributor’s kickbacks. Visuals reign supreme in this weird little book, which is as it should be. Check it out: My story appears on page 24  and is paired here not with the artwork of … Continue reading →

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