So you think you can tell?
But this opens up an important question: certainly important to me, because my ability to feed my family depends upon it. If I turn my art into a gift… how do I live? Of course this is not my unique, personal problem. It’s not even a new problem. It’s the universal problem faced by all artists, throughout history.
theeggandtherock.substack.com • I Wrote a Story for a Friend - By Julian Gough
"writing fiction in America as we enter the twenty-first century is no job for intellectual cowards. There are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different." - Stephen King
I run slowly, I always have. I run for pleasure, even though I don’t like it. I run because it’s an easy way to get exercise with little time and no equipment. I run because it’s efficient, but I do it slowly, and I do it for fun, but I don’t like it. Sometimes people make no sense.
My problem is: when someone passes me, I always feel beaten. Even ... See more
My problem is: when someone passes me, I always feel beaten. Even ... See more
Rachel Katz • The Dancing Tortoise
SHOE Often a zkv is just a very short story. Sometimes it is a real zkv, in which case the letters zkv no longer mean anything. Then it has become a shoe that pinches a little, the content is (slightly) larger than the form. The difference must not become too great, no binding, no mutilation, no beautiful little Eastern foot. In primary school, in
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