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I've become a pro at procrastination. Master procrastinator. Master class. I've written so many shit stories. I started a long one and got too afraid to finish. Then I did it again with an even longer

A few weeks ago, I sent off four short stories. They all got rejected. [Art by Ali Axelrod] Two stories were set in a near-future sci-fi dystopia. One was rejected by Apex Magazine and the other by Fantasy

Man, I did not intend to disappear for so long. I caught some sort of upper respiratory infection that has mostly kept me in coughing fits all week. Sorry, y’all. The week before, I intentionally left

Look who’s there, a wandering adventurer looking for the Bananafish treasure! This episode is part of the interactive story/treasure hunt called “Quest In The Realms”. If you landed on this page because

Look who’s there, a wandering adventurer looking for the Bananafish treasure! This episode is part of the interactive story/treasure hunt called “Quest In The Realms”. If you landed on this page because

Look who’s there, a wandering adventurer looking for the Bananafish treasure! This episode is part of the interactive story/treasure hunt called “Quest In The Realms”. If you landed on this page because

Look who’s there, a wandering adventurer looking for the Bananafish treasure! This episode is part of the interactive story/treasure hunt called “Quest In The Realms”. If you landed on this page because

Look who’s there, a wandering adventurer looking for the Bananafish treasure! This episode is part of the interactive story/treasure hunt called “Quest In The Realms”. If you landed on this page because

Look who’s there, a wandering adventurer looking for the Bananafish treasure! This episode is part of the interactive story/treasure hunt called “Quest In The Realms”. If you landed on this page because

Look who’s there, a wandering adventurer looking for the Bananafish treasure! This episode is part of the interactive story/treasure hunt called “Quest In The Realms”. If you landed on this page because

It’s been a busy week. Let’s start with the big failure. I submitted a story to The Threepenny Review, one of the big-name literary journals. They swatted it back down within 24 hours. Oh well. On the

In an effort to take writing more seriously, this week, I’ve been trying a little different routine. I’ve been heading to bed around 8:30 to 9:00 PM and waking up by 4:30 or 5:00 AM. The goal has been

How Christians Replaced Their Ethics with Capitalism Once upon a time, conservative American Christians followed a man named Jesus of Nazareth. Now they follow the irreligious Donald Trump of Queens. How

I just published a piece over on Medium entitled “I’m Not a Writer; I’m a Fraud”. If you happen to have a Medium account and want to share some love, claps (upvotes) are always appreciated over there.

What proceeds is a lesson in failure. [Image source] As a fiction writer (and probably just in general), publications are the ticket to success on the blogging platform Medium. Anyone can create a publication,

Before I begin, let me provide some explanatory notes for this entry. Right under this note will be a collection of the links for the short story "Asleep in Nara." I wanted to also include the

Today features mostly good news. On Monday, I wrapped up the editing stuff I had to do. It actually ended up being more fun than I thought it would be. Also, money is nice. Maybe I should take up my family’s

In my last entry, I explained that last week was not super productive. I accomplished a few things, sure, but they weren’t very tangible. I decided to fix that problem this weekend and put my nose to the

Remember that first entry in this series, in which I said I’d be refocusing my blog? There, I used a question and answer format that some folks seemed to like. While I’m not committing to that for every

On Monday, I decided to go out for a friend’s birthday. We watched Clemson clobber Alabama (didn’t see that one coming...God, now Nick Saban is definitely not retiring, and we'll have to deal with this