May Day post: Citizen of Utopia (from The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)
It’s a dream, of course: the Customs stop where you declare your goods, your self, your intentions, your history, your citizenship, your blood and bone. What are your intentions, what you seek, where...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 13 July 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)
The summer after my uncle Basil’s disappearance, we stayed at his country pied-a-terre, in which my father was part-owner. Nothing had been changed; the place was still as it had been. The studio was...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 20 July 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)
My mother and Basil argued over color, in a way that was immediately familiar when I was a student at the Academie Julian, drinking strong tea in the cafes with my friends. Those quarrels were the...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 July 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)
The fact of human faces — well, that’s another thing. I cherish that portrait of me that uncle Basil painted, because it is honest. It is a more honest mirror than my own silvered glass, for it...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 August 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)
Mabel Dodge is a sort of eclectic Mme de Stael, who brings together a various society. One of the daughters of my host’s house, a vivacious beauty of surprisingly advanced views, promised me an evening...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 10 August 2014 (Published Works sampler)
Terence has a new inamorata. I’ve told him time after time that this never works out. (In the Laboratory of the Night) *** Erika knew when her mother had come in from patrol. From ancient habit, she...
View ArticleCover Reveal: The Lost Pissarro (forthcoming publication this week!)
Last night, finished the semi-final edits on The Lost Pissarro and commended my brainchild to the final reader (QA and continuity). This story, currently at 28,000 words, will be published some time...
View ArticleGoals: Lost Pissarro to be released Monday & cover reveal for nonfiction project
Upcoming fiction release on February 2 On Monday 2 February 2015 The Lost Pissarro will be available for purchase. Yes, timeline got bumped, due to technical issues. Nonfiction project will be released...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 1 February 2015 (The Lost Pissarro)
The night before Angie’s New York gallery opening, she and her mentor Florence hung the show. Florence told her the story of the mass witch-burnings in front of the Federal Courthouse in downtown...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 10 January 2016 (Revised story: Self Insert)
Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** “What’s the scariest thing in the...
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