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Chapter 1: Gunshot
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Chapter 0: Introduction
Welcome friend! Pull on some earbuds, but not too tight, and enjoy! One of my editing stages is recording myself reading my work, so this podcast is a natural extension of that process. I’m refining my recording and mastering workflow, so as I get more savvy I may double back and re-record earlier chapters. As […]
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Chapter 51: Distance
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Chapter 50: Road
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Eight Poor Words, and How to Enrich Them.
I see these words used frequently by my students. They seldom improve a sentiment. Some muddy clear water. Others waste opportunity. Editing for them provides eight ways to improve the next draft.
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New Fiction: Last and Alone
I’ve posted a new short story over in the fiction section: Last and Alone is the narrative of cloned soldier marooned on an alien world when the last human arc ship dies.
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Blog Update Schedule
This blog is updated when I travel. When not traveling, my writing emphasis weighs firmly upon fiction, which I may post on this site when the mood strikes me (but will be in the fiction section, not the blog). I have two lives: the interesting one in which I prepare to write, and the uninteresting […]
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Korakas
For one month I lived in this abandoned shack, surrounded by counterfeit life-vests, cast off clothes, wrecked boats, and the Aegean sea.
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Landing on Lesvos
The Syrian family had strikingly clear eyes. A refracting blue like crystal – hard and bright and the color of the shallow waters off Korakas or the eastern sky before dawn. But I didn’t notice. I didn’t notice when I met the family of four on the beach, surrounded by thirty Afghanis who didn’t speak […]
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Surreal Calm
Cats wander among the tables ringing the moored boats and calm waters of Skala Sikamineas harbor. The cats come in every variety of mange, scruff, scar and distemper, and a great many of them crowd around anyone eating at an outdoor table. They’re the only thing unkempt. The carefully cobbled stones of the harbor, the […]