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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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Are You There God? It's Me ... You
It’s literally seconds before Bobbi’s laughter cascades around us, lighting the patio like sun emerging from clouds. Its rays put in stark relief not…
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Growing Sagebrush in Prison
"How we hold people is how they will present themselves. If I look at you as a whole individual, you will show up to me that way." Meet Stacy Moore and…
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5x5. My Cabin in the Woods for Yours, Part II: Ramona Grigg and Me on Bravery, Upcoming Projects, and Doors That Lead to Other Rooms
"Writing should be honest and fulfilling and as close a measure of who you are as you can make it." "I made a deal with the fearful part of me. And…
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5x5. My Cabin in the Woods for Yours, Part I: Ramona Grigg and me on Loss and Personal Writing and Our Wintering
"I think finally deciding to write more personally has enriched my writing life more than I could ever have imagined. I was terrified at first." "I had…
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A Filter of Amber
Same Walk, Different Shoes
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5x5. Leather for Rubber: Megan Okkerse on walking the Camino de Santiago and me on rolling in vanlife
Walking the Way has been on my (extensive) “someday” list ever since I learned of the Camino de Santiago in 2013 (when I edited The De-Caff Camino, a…
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The Intimacy of Sound
Come in, close. Listen. These are the birds I had coffee with as buttercream rays woke the Sonoran Desert. For months, as the pandemic kept me from…
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Luis Remembers (and the Recovery of My Own Black Box)
Luis Remembers. Luis remembers taking a class on how to debone a turkey. A French woman taught the class, and two women sat behind him—one who’d left…
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