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Check-in + My Year of the "Locusts"
Let’s talk about how we’d answer, “How are you?” if the question meant, “No for real. What’s up for you?” Serious, silly, sad, outrageous, happy, a…
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A Pig in the Woods and Other Outcomes
“A hog?” He was incredulous. “What’s a pig doin’ in the woods?” I laughed. “A hawk,” I said, like it rhymed with lock. “You know.” I held out my arms…
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A Door by Any Other Color
High on the faraway pinions tickling my nostrils, I barely even felt the jolt of contact. So, when I turned to youthful eyes watery with remorse, I…
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April 2024

To the Pain
I want to share my new diagnosis so I can fully thank you for being an integral part of my unmitigated joy.
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The Yes I Found
Parakeets of Brooklyn by Gerry LaFemina
Published on The Books That Made Us • 
Of Bears and Ants
“Her head”—Jill made a wide oh with her arms—“fit like this.” She breathed as if to fill her nostrils with the musk of fur and sighed like a purr. I…
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Repaying a Karmic Debt
A guest post by Deb Sinness. "The Greyhound bus dropped me in downtown Oceanside with no instructions on how to get to my command on the sprawling…
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March 2024

Replay! Wow with Your Choices
Watch now | Replace, Add, Experiment--Vision. Key in on patterns encountered (over 20 years of editing) that hold works back & prompts that get your…
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Walking the East Coast
A serial memoir. Can I tell you about the time I lived for half a year out of a backpack?Can you tell me about your own walks in life so we can shape…
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Wow with Your Choices!
Guide your writing from draft to polished vision. Explore patterns I encountered (over 20 years of editing) that hold works in progress back and prompts…
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5x5. A Lamb for a Backpack, II: Mr. Troy Ford and me on our writer (and spy) origins and WIP
Mr. Troy Ford, aka Xavier Gadfly, on Qstack, fantasy, and finding a home for his first novel, “Watrspout.” Holly Starley, aka Jessica Jane, on her…
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5x5. A Lamb for a Backpack, I: Mr. Troy Ford and me on what we're serializing and how life meets writing
Mr. Troy Ford on his LGBTQ+ serial fiction, Lamb, and being "the queen of the two hours too late quip." And Holly Starley on her serial memoir, Walking…
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