Sedatephobia: Fear of Silence
My life is full of noise now: highway traffic, phones ringing in unison, the voices of irate city residents. If you asked my past self what he thought of his future self, I’m sure it...
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2014: The Retrospective
Let’s take a look. It’s (mostly) in a book. This past year, that is. Professionally, I started a new full-time job that came out of the blue. I applied online and thought nothing of it....
The Year of Poetry
Poetry month came and went. I did it right by reading tons of it: John Ashbery, Charles Bukowski (my first ever, if the internet can believe that), Adrienne Rich (all-time favorite still), Peter Campion, Juliana...
Shutting Down, Opening Up
Recently, I’ve had a few things of mine published: “Soft Power,” in One Forty Fiction (Twitter-sized stories) and “Playing Female,” in Monkeybicycle. I hope you enjoy them. It’s also been around a year or so...
Writing from Home
Home has always been more strange than familiar. This is a video clip I found while going through old stuff on my computer today. It shows my sister throwing rocks into the lake by our...