For 247 sleep cycles, the safebuoy has been drifting. The only window is a round, pillow-shaped patch of transparent steel. Loocha tells her son, Corvey, there’s nothing to see, and he believes her. Until the giant ice cream cone appears. From his sleep-sack, Corvey points and asks, “What’s that?” Since the evacuation of the Oort […]
Empathy. It is the one concept that any great writer understands intimately. Grammar, syntax, style, plot, all crucial, but empathy trumps them all. Writers can’t fake it. It’s something developed over time, with experience. Not writing experience. Life experience. In the writing world, we often hear the phrase, ‘write what you know.’ The broadest sense […]
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You no longer sleep well. Your commute is a third-to-half-a-work-day. You put in long hours. You have responsibilities that matter more than anything else in your life. And illness and depression have returned to make everything harder. There are two projects you are planning for the year. You’ve paid each one little attention. What do […]
We are the alive ones. We have grown fewer with time. Our cousins stay near us in the form of objects although they are not of us any longer. The conch on the mantel was of us once. The tasseled ottoman was of us once. The carven bell was of us once, and we ring […]
Rex could teach anybody to quilt. He didn’t care if you’d never sewn before, if you’d never held a needle. He had a gift, knew the fabric, and inherited a lifetime of needles from his grandmother. Quilts came together easy under Rex’s careful eye. It didn’t matter if you had no money. Goodwill was brimming […]
Empathy. It is the one concept that any great writer understands intimately. Grammar, syntax, style, plot, all crucial, but empathy trumps them all. Writers can’t fake it. It’s something developed over time, with experience. Not writing experience. Life experience. In the writing world, we often hear the phrase, ‘write what you know.’ The broadest sense […]