Category: Literature
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A Few Clumsy Words about Jeffrey Brown
When I first moved to Boston from Seattle in my early twenties, I was filled with confusion, excitement, and the terrifying thought that I had no idea what I was doing when it came to relationships, jobs and the other mysterious workings of the world.…
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Affair Begins
She waits outside the door. Or inside the door. Not in the door. I am in the bathroom. She is in the room. I just used the bathroom. She presumably did not just use the room. Besides her, there is also a bed in the…
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ArtsCorps Student Showcase: Watering the Grassroots
Virtually every good citizen is aware of the massive cuts made to arts funding and arts education on a national scale over the past twenty years. Fewer people, however, are aware of the immense disparity between the haves and the have nots when it comes…
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The Minister of Chance: Serial Telling
Those who know me also know I crusade regularly against bad science fiction in popular culture. They also know that I am not a Doctor Who fan by any stretch of the imagination. Probably, then, there will be some surprise in the ranks that I…
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Tell Me the Hurt Thing
Push number four because the stairs are murder: a crooked rattle- snake spine, windows painted shut, walls twice papered over, built into catacombs you’re sure they know by heart: busted hall lights & pitch dark landings, cul-de-sacs colored a murderous blood-red.
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Crawling with the literati at APRIL’s Seattle LitCrawl
Our own new/hipness/literati/ice cream/microbrew diva, Sarah Anne Lloyd, crawled around with the literate folks at Seattle’s APRIL LitCrawl and almost forgot to tell us about it. Nevertheless, I wrested her photos from her as Bill and Ted would say “most heinously” so that you could…
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Project Top Hat
Courtesy of the lovely Julie Hoverson, we present to you an original script from her audio drama series, 19 Nocturne Boulevard . This episode, “Project Top Hat,” was originally podcast on January 2, 2012. For more information on the series, check out Julie’s own website…
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The Show Must Go On, Part 2: The Story We Tell Ourselves
I’ve signed up to do a storytelling show, though I’m not a natural storyteller. I pitched my story because being in a show sounds like fun. Because oral storytelling is a skill that I want to learn as a writer. Because I used to be…
