• Velvet Masonry

    Velvet Masonry

    Thinking spring with a new story published by wildscape.literary magazine.

  • Free Calendar for Writers

    Free Calendar for Writers

    A free weekly planner for writers, students, and editors.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Hildegard von Bingen

    On the life of my favorite Middle Ages mystic.

  • Heart of Babylon

    Heart of Babylon

    Two sisters uncover the dark secret of Space Station Babylon.

  • Waiting Room

    Waiting Room

    An essay on the nature of waiting rooms, the necessary evil of medicine.

  • Haiku

    Haiku

    Get your fingers ready, it’s time to haiku.

  • Concerning the Future of Souls

    Concerning the Future of Souls

    Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams is a collection of micro stories layered between a narrative of Azrael and Lucifer—angelic colleagues in the Great Beyond.

  • Cocoon

    Cocoon

    The spider woman offers you a black vial. If you had any doubts, they were left on the forest path that led you here, to this cave. The vial glitters in your palm like a dark jewel, darker even than her many eyes.

  • Inside Out Egg

    Inside Out Egg

    A reivew of Robin LaMer Rahija’s debut poetry collection.

  • Mr. Movie

    Mr. Movie

    Long before Blockbuster opened in our town, there was Mr. Movie. Everyone knew him—he was our resident gay man, a curiosity in small Midwestern town. He rarely went outside, but when he did, he drifted between the mailbox and concrete stoop of the sagging bungalow, a tall, pale ghost in…

  • Scrimshaw

    Scrimshaw

    Here, she is mistress of a small, tidy universe, almost untouched by the woes of the world outside. Among the comforting smells of garlic and sage, one could almost forget the wail of air-raid sirens, the ration tickets, and the lines of uniformed men waiting at the steam-shrouded station.

  • Babies are free

    Babies are free

    A rescue mission for Mother.

  • It Only Takes One

    It Only Takes One

    A meditation on the nature of failure and it’s inextricable relationship with success.

  • Ode to Joe

    Ode to Joe

    I’ve got a bean to grind.

  • Only Forward, Never Back

    Only Forward, Never Back

    A man stumbles on a secret in his son’s closet—one that leads him to a perilous journey across the universe.

  • Wrestling with Jello

    Wrestling with Jello

    Reflections on a writing seminar with Natalie Goldberg, author of “Writing Down the Bones”.

  • Blue Jeans

    Blue Jeans

    It’s menacing, fetid, and dark. I back away and press the jeans to my chest, reconsidering. I can’t do this, but I must.

  • 97 Favorite Books

    97 Favorite Books

    You like books? I like books! Come see my 97 favorites…

  • Thou Mayest

    Thou Mayest

    “You want to write. Why is it so hard?”

  • A Mind’s Ear

    A Mind’s Ear

    A reflection on Chapter 1 of “Steering the Craft” by Ursula K. Le Guin.