The Fiction Writer Has Writer’s Block
She couldn’t find a narrative thread to save her life. …Which sounded like it could be an exciting narrative, but was really hyperbole. Not if I kill myself, she thought. …
The President Stands Naked
The President unbuttoned his white shirt, dropped it on the floor on top of his suit pants. He stripped off his white undershirt, then his underwear, also white. He turned …
The Fiction Writer Considers Space
Over the course of her life, the fiction writer has found herself thinking about space. White space on the page, open space on the plains, empty space in the …
Great American Novelists
In college, they studied comparative mythology before dropping out their last semester to learn about the world on its own terms. The sons of working class heroes and housewives, the …
Why The Fiction Writer Is Not A Poet
At least 99 percent of poetry readers are critics or other poets or both. She believes that poetry is the highest art form, save music, and it is music, …
Rim Shot (No. 4: My Short-Lived Life As A Rockstar)
Locked out of the room, standing in the hallway of the hotel, naked, leather jacket wrapped around my waist. I was drunk, tired. This was my short-lived life as a …
Rim Shot (No. 3: It’s Midnight)
The fiction writer kept looking for the door, found the bar instead. Every so often, she would go to the clock behind the punch bowl, turn back the hands, and …
It
Don’t you wish we’d just quit talking about it? Politics, religion, sex are all off the table, weather should be too. It rained in Texas at the funeral of the …
It
It’s coming. Nothing to be done, nothing to be said, so we talk about the weather. All summer long it was drought. Now, it’s hurricane season again. New Orleans better …
Rim Shot (No. 2: Motions)
A man chopping onions, wondering what time his wife will be home, stops, asks himself: through what daily motions does a man go through, in order to expand his spirit to …