I got a rejection email for a story I submitted to an English magazine in August. It’s a very short story – about 400 words, a so-called “flash fiction” piece – that has an extremely unusual twist in the last paragraph. It’s (delightfully, in my humble opinion) strange and thought-provoking, and everyone who has read it […]
I wrote this back when my Mythgard class was talking about C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Not sure how good it is, but hey, you can let me know. Lucy Pevensie @LucyPev goin to the country #bombssuck Lucy Pevensie @LucyPev check out this wardrobe I found: pinterest.com/pin/47147127318515647/ #old #furniture Lucy Pevensie
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently announced that it is digitizing more than 80,000 manuscripts by Albert Einstein and making them publicly available via its Einstein Archives Onlinesite. According to this FOX News article: The portal now offers a close look at an initial 2,000 documents, or 7,000 pages total, from Einstein’s personal and public
Yesterday I went to a sports bar named Sharkey’s for cheap wings and to watch SU (barely) beat UNC-Asheville in the first round of the NCAA tournament. I had been at the library working on an outline for <plug type=”shameless”>something I’ll be posting more about soon</plug>, and brought my bag into Sharkey’s so I could
Over the last week or so, I’ve added some poems and stories to the site. Most of them are older pieces that I wrote ten or more years ago. Here’s a little breakdown of what’s available. Notes and Splinters — a chapbook-length collection of poems I wrote mostly between 1996 — 2000. It consists of
Today while working on a story, a little witticism popped into my mind. It was a throwaway play on words sired by an overheard conversation between some women (specifically about a book they were discussing) sitting nearby and the name of a person connected with an organization I am particularly familiar with. It was not
This morning I was faced with a very hard decision. It wasn’t the kind of decision where I could go one way or the other – I knew what had to be done. It was the kind of decision where I had to just suck up and do it. I had to cut the better
I’m pretty stoked – I had a list published today at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency titled Common Sense Solutions to Alt-Pop Song Problems. I got the idea while listening to Matchbox 20’s song “3 AM” at 7 in the evening. I was eating the Chicago Classic at Uno’s. The line “the clock on the wall has
