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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

Welcome proud adventurer! Prepare your backpack, sleeping bag, and whiskey flask: the long-awaited Quest In The Realms starts here! This is an original Bananafish production. It's a story where, from an

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

I am not a person of doing this type of publications, much less of wanting to give some kind of pity, what I want to share with you I do rather want to show a somewhat overwhelming situation in my country,

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

So there's this guy, well, bananafish actually. I'm not even sure it's a he to be honest, but I digress. He had this great idea to create a one-of-a-kind experience here on Steem based on the

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

30 STEEM, 30 @steembasicincome shares and 10 @steemmonsters Beta Booster Packs are waiting for one bold adventurer to grab them! 11 February 2019: the adventure begins. Mark the date! The time has come!

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