In this, the final week of the year, Singapore-based Eunoia Review haspublished two of my short stories: Game Night and When the Typhoon Came. But what the stories themselves are based upon back further than 2017, back before I moved…
Tag: fiction
A Very Gendered Apocalypse: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife and The Book of Etta
Over the past few days, in shared taxis and before bed, I have read the first two books in Meg Elison’s Road to Nowhere trilogy which explores the former U.S. in the years after an autoimmune disease devastates the population,…
Why White Women Voted for Trump—And How Literature Can Save Us
All women live with a constant drumbeat of real and threatened violence against us. White women, however, are taught that the worst of that violence comes from men of color and that only the white supremacist patriarchy can save us,…
Short Story: The Making of A Poet
I have said before that prompts are not just classroom conveniences. Read my short story, “The Making of a Poet”, in the current issue of The Prompt Literary Magazine to see what I did with one.
Human Observation Report TDC498
written for The Daily Create 506 Today when the upright human left, it took the small furry human with it, and I took the opportunity to examine more closely the paraphernalia the upright human uses for morning worship. They were…
Why Poets Should Read Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
The prose of Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then has a frustrated and frustrating music, the rhythm of minds trying to resolve the past and the present and memories that might be fantasies, likely are fantasies, or may be the future.…