Faces Four – Gone Wrong
Gone Wrong: A Young Girl’s Voice Inside the Mausoleum: Mary Jo - The first voice heard - What happens when a parent…
Kareema
The screams ripped through the morning air, sounding in many ways louder than the previous explosion. Figures…
Tobias Smollett – Author Lost in Translation
Tobias Smollett
Tobias Smollett was born in 1721 to a Scottish Presbyterian family and went to university, where…
Sadeh
On the tenth of Bahman may the sacred fire be your true guide May the camel’s thorns bring you to the world and…
Patience in Writing
Patience in Writing
Writing fiction is an activity that demands an extraordinary amount of patience. In fact,…
Writers in Exile
Exile means living away from home, while being explicitly refused permission to return.
Clara’s Wish
Christian Lindgren has lost that which he holds most dear, his daughter. In a haunting dream she comes to him and…
Totally Biased and Completely Unscientific
Totally Biased and Completely Unscientific
I've been thinking of a friend and how much she has made it through…
Koko’s Gift
Koko's Gift
A young girl stands by and watches her mother slaughtered right in front of her eyes. An entire…
Can We Truly Afford Them Anymore?
Can We Truly Afford Them Anymore?
Sometime during the last twenty years, the clear distinction between all…
Interview with Pat Bertram
Interview with Pat Bertram
What is your next big thing?
I’m not really working on anything of my own right…
Love at Eagles Pass 1
Love at Eagles Pass (1): A light, misty fog wet her face and chilled her ungloved hands, while blood pounded in her…
Mom, Am I Going to Die?
As I spontaneously sucked in my breath, I struggled to answer the hardest question anyone ever asked of me.
Book Review: Beyond Vinyl
Beyond Vinyl: Head to the vintage store and check out the fashions. Make sure that you find a great pair of…
Raging Against Ghostwriters
Raging Against Ghostwriters: When I went to study literature at York University for three years in the early 1990s,…