No Spoilers
Have you seen this yet? I’m guessing no, or else I’d be getting an earful from Josslyn right now (It might be nice if you stepped up to take the heat on occasion…). I’m also guessing the author (Have you ever even heard of Ophen Precteldey?) doesn’t know she’s stumbling around the border of heresy, either, but maybe she’s a fusionist agitator.
Released: June 15th, 2023
A Blank Space Where She Ought to Be
It’s 8.30 AM on a Monday, and Tess is hiding in the bathroom again, pretending she’s getting ready for school. Mom’s roaming the kitchen and the hallway, probably sipping her second coffee, maybe looking for her phone, likely getting ready to yell at Tess.
Released: April 15th, 2023
The Red Woman in Her Plastic Tower
In the café windows on my meandering way from the dock at which I had arrived into this world, versions of me sipped mochas, sipped green teas, sipped strawberry Italian sodas; I’d been on and off caffeine for all of my adult years, which made caffeine the longest relationship I could claim before Jenny.
Released: February 15, 2023
“Narratology” by Peter Young
Novelists should thank Flaubert the way poets thank spring: it all begins again with him. There is really a time before Flaubert and a time after him. Flaubert decisively established what most readers and writers think of as modern realist narration and his influence is almost too familiar to be visible.
—James Wood
Released: January 15th, 2023
Memento Mori
The engines on both wings exploded. Paul heard the spritely bong of the cabin intercom kick in, but he couldn't hear the message over the screaming of the passengers.
Released: November 15th, 2022
The Cemetery for All the Mothers Who Died Way Too Young
I picked up my first job as an assistant groundskeeper at a cemetery for mothers from my classmate Heidi Arthur. She heard my mom died of lupus over summer break and that I needed a job to help my dad with funeral bills.
Released: October 15th, 2022