Writing, A Leap of Faith
Writing—or any creative endeavor—to some extent is a leap of faith and a huge personal risk: Faith that what you …
Category Archives: Short Story
“When Things Go Missing” – How Absence Shapes Our Lives
Since May has been proclaimed both National Short Story Month and National Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States, …
The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette
It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …
The Enigma of Being Both Watcher and Watched
Enigma I am both watcherand watched.The woman walking in her gardenand the one watching her walk.Two halves, back to back.Both …
True Ghost Stories: Growing Up in a Haunted House
Have you ever had any ghostly encounters? Each year around this time, I like to reblog a series of tales …
13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After
My mother died seven years ago this month, which is also the month I was born. I wrote a short …
The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette, Redux
It’s been said that for writers the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t think …
“Looking for Bobby,” or Losing & Finding Ourselves
May is short story month, and in celebration I’m posting a short story I wrote years ago and published in …
The Light-Craving Stories of George Saunders
What is it that I love about the wildly weird, dark and dorky stories of George Saunders? Ever since reading …
Downward into Darkness on Extended Wings
Wallace Stevens’ poem “Sunday Morning” ends with these lines: We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old …
