For the past month and a half I have been listless and ill-tempered, struggling to get out of bed in the morning. I haven’t wanted to write. I haven’t wanted to leave the apartment, to do much of anything. Dust accumulated in layers, enveloping pictures and knick-knacks like future fossils, insects frozen in amber. Bedsheets [...]
Waiting was something he disliked these days because it made him realize how much time he had on his hands.
— Armand ML Inezian, “See Me”
Want to join us in a wait-y story, based on the above quotation? Could be a paragraph, could be five bajillion paragraphs (read: 500 to 2000 words). Email me a Doc [...]
If I am ever a big fancy published author, and as a big fancy published author am invited to read a segment of my big fancy work for a public radio program or for some big fancy gala in my name, I hereby make this promise to you: I will not read to you with [...]
In ten short days, I’m submitting this week’s Branches story (#5) to the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest. I just started it tonight, (Note: tardy as usual. Man, beginning anything is terrifying. Before you know it — perhaps in a matter of minutes, seconds! — it could become something riddled with faults, and faulty [...]
I just stumbled upon my first criticism from the reading public! It is on a funeral industry/management blog.
Tim,
You do find the most unusual stuff in your voyage thru the net. I liked the office site, but I don’t get the chick writing about the funeral. She must be one of those artsy-fartsy folks I do [...]