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  • Coral Street

    Coral Street

    “Something moved across the street. Between the rows of the first and second floor windows something…

  • Cues

    Cues

    This is your stage manager. If you haven’t already, please sign in.   My attention flips between…

  • Les Chanteurs

    Les Chanteurs

    “Sometimes, when your windows are open, I hear you singing.”

  • A Box of Ingredients: Interview with Beth Piatote, Sudden Fiction Guest Judge and Author of The Beadworkers: Stories

    A Box of Ingredients: Interview with Beth Piatote, Sudden Fiction Guest Judge and Author of The Beadworkers: Stories

    I think about other Native people who may read that piece and can, through the piece,…

  • “Short, colorful, Twilight Zone-y Tales”: An interview with Ben Loory, Sudden Fiction guest judge and author of Tales of Falling and Flying

    “Short, colorful, Twilight Zone-y Tales”: An interview with Ben Loory, Sudden Fiction guest judge and author of Tales of Falling and Flying

    I decided early on that I was going to write my stories…in my own voice, my…

  • On Writing Stories and Ourselves: A Review of Old School by Tobias Wolff

    On Writing Stories and Ourselves: A Review of Old School by Tobias Wolff

    If there is one thing that Old School excels in, it is the raw depiction of…

  • Everyday Strength and Struggle: Review of Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery

    Everyday Strength and Struggle: Review of Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery

    When we “keep faith” in the face of catastrophe, we discover new strength within ourselves to…

  • The Drive to the Crematorium 

    The Drive to the Crematorium 

    On the drive to the crematorium, I think I make peace with your death.

  • Last Snowfall

    Last Snowfall

    It is Earth’s final snowfall / and everyone is here.

  • Pizza Talk

    Pizza Talk

    This is probably why I want him to impregnate me, so my kid won’t have to…

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