By Trais Pearson “Have you seen shapes yet?” She flinched, and willed the slumber from her eyes with slow, deliberate...| LIBRE
2008–2011: Writers’ Strike & Depression I thought I’d get paid more after the writers’ strike because that’s what me and my bedazzled Writers’ PAs are the backbone of the industry! signs were for. But a bunch of writers’ PA jobs were cut, so I had an important decision to make: move back to my parents’ mansion in Bethesda or dumpster dive for Subway sandwiches near the Santa Monica Pier. So, dumpsters it is!| Defenestration
Last night I couldn't sleep. The holidays do that to me. I went downstairs, figuring I'd make myself a little snack. A chocolate chip cookie and milk, maybe – nothing crazy. But even before my hand gripped the stainless-steel handle of my smart fridge, its display lit up: Wouldn't it be better to just call your mother? "It's two-a.m." I said. "I'm just hungry."| Defenestration
There they are again, unboxing their fucking noise-makers. Attaching long orange snakes from my walls to their things, horridly neon things. God, what an endless din. I watch them through gaps in the lath, peeking out between its cracks. Rattling vibrations shake me loose from my nap and I slipped through a fresh hole in the plaster.| Defenestration
Leila's front wheel wobbles when she cycles over a crack in the tarmac. A car behind blares its horn as she struggles to steady the books in her basket and keep her summer dress from flaring up. 'You daft old cow,' the driver yells as he overtakes. He waves a flabby arm at her, blurry tattoos str| Defenestration
One day the VCR whirred, playing The Simpsons: Too Hot For TV videotape on date night. Outside, torrential rains slammed the windows, startling Daisy. She clambered up, showering Daniel with sloppy kisses. Susan groaned, but he laughed: “Awww, poor Daisy—she has a cromulent reason.” This piece of flash fiction was written in response to:| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Woman, Life, Freedom: Poems for the Iranian RevolutionBänoo Zan and Cy Strom, EditorsGuernica Editions, 2025 Reviewed by Jeannine M. Pitas On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa “Jina” Amini, a Kurdish minority in Iran, was beaten to death by the Islamic Republic’s morality police, allegedly for improperly wearing the hijab. This incident led to an eruption […]| PRISM international
The Sisters K by Maureen SunUnnamed Press, 2024 Review by Jessica PoonThree sisters and an egomaniac dad are foundational to both Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The Sisters K, by Maureen Sun, shares tasting notes with both, but is ultimately a distinct creature of its own. Contemporary literature arguably fetishizes strong images […]| PRISM international
Well, here we are. Once again closing out a year. I don't have much that's very flowery to say. While it's not necessarily a tradition I enjoy, the end of the year brings with it a sort of melancholic existential dread that poisons my enthusiasm to ring in the new year. It's been a pretty tiring year, for unexpected reasons. And some very expected, due to the whole, Life Experience that the world continues to bring with it every subsequent year. It's exponential. This was my 40th full year on...| Dispatch from the Radical Dreamland
this post was originally written for the final couple days of cohost, a long-form social media site that as of october 1st will be sunsetting.| Dispatch from the Radical Dreamland
By Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch “Nor a Drop to Drink” I float on the lullaby waves. The searing sun crowns me, and...| LIBRE
By Ilana Lindsey While I slithered out of my mother’s body with a full head of hair, the piranha infestation...| LIBRE
Flashback to the summer of 2007, right before freshman year of college.| Notes by JCProbably
“The Endstate of History,” flash fiction by Bernie Jean Schiebeling| Electric Literature
Dear Kevin in 3C: Congratulations on the five-day bender. Incredible. How did all those people fit in your apartment? My wife and I thought nothing would ever top your last Labor Day marathon. You’re an inspiration, Kevin. We used to get wild. The baby made us forget. But you’re our reminder, Kev| Defenestration
“At the time of the episode,” Dr. Levin said at the conference, “Subject C didn’t recall it was her birthday. When prompted, she said, ‘I feel like an invalid.’” It was, he noted, a revealing momen…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Photographer unidentified, Three Archers, Japan, 1860-ca. 1900 Training the mind and body to become one The post Eugen Herrigel: Zen in the Art of Archery appeared first on The Culturium.| The Culturium
Writers & Artists Spirituality Series: Charles Darwin & Down House| The Culturium
Whenever the honeysuckle starts to bloom, I’m reminded of the spring when everyone decided it was a great idea for me to ride the back seat of a tandem bicycle with my father-in-law. He wasn’t even my father-in-law yet, which made this imposed, volun-told decree even more profoundly horrible.| Defenestration
Part 17 The wreckage finally thinned. I held my breath until the last shard slipped past—then let it out in a ragged rush. But the console was blinking amber. CARGO INTEGRITY. My heart lurched. I s…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
My dear fellow members of the Agatha Christie fan club, as club President, I speak to you today in a time of intense sadness for our organization. It has now been two weeks since our newest member, my dear friend Fred, has died, and unfortunately, the police are no closer to cracking his case. His d| Defenestration
The lovely thing about a personal blog almost nobody ever reads is that you can use it almost like a diary. So I can use this post for personal encouragement and as a reference point throughout this year to check on my own objectives.| Techdecline's Blog
1. A boy being caught with his shirt tail untucked and hanging out of his pants. 2. Chewing gum anywhere on the school grounds at any time. 3. Not returning an empty cafeteria lunch tray to the dish washing area. 4. A boy’s hair growing over the tops of his ears by a little as 1/32 of an in| Defenestration
some excavated nonsense from the 4d20 song lyrics craze way back which i guess has since become a whole project with a sleek modern look hosted on an AI workplace that brought a sort of a sneer to my dewy lips so i don't know about all that but credit where its due i guess. not that much credit though just play with my Palimpsest instead lovebug| wasitlikely.blogspot.com
Thursday, June 12, 2025: I’ve started a new blog about our year living abroad in Costa Rica. If you’d like to follow me there, check it out here: a pura vida year in costa rica Some of my first posts […]| ~ wander.essence ~
Saturday, May 31, 2025: Welcome to our May cocktail hour. May was another busy month for us as we wrapped up our U.S. business and flew out to Costa Rica. Let’s have some margaritas, in some new margarita glasses I […]| ~ wander.essence ~
Writers & Artists Spirituality Series: Thomas Hardy, Bockhampton & Dorchester, Dorset| The Culturium
Listed below are the Winners of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition. These exceptional works of prose were selected from over 800 submissions. Congratulations to... The post 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition Winners appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
Listed below are the Finalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition. These exceptional works of prose were selected from over 800 submissions. Congratulations to... The post 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition Finalists appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition. These exceptional works of prose were selected from over 800 submissions. Congratulations to... The post 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition Semifinalists appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
Sunday, March 2, 2025: We were sad today to leave our apartment in San Miguel de Allende. We left and drove directly to Querétaro, our last stop for 3 nights before returning to the U.S. We were lu…| ~ wander.essence ~
Welcome to Issue 30 of Panoply. This issue completes our tenth year! We’re quite honored to have been part of such a creative and wonderful project. And we look forward to keeping on! Thanks …| panoply, a literary zine
Arrival in San Miguel de Allende Tuesday, February 25, 2025: We arrived at our two-story apartment at Calvario 8 in San Miguel de Allende on Tuesday late afternoon and promptly went out to a market to pick up some breakfast […]| ~ wander.essence ~
Writers & Artists Spirituality Series: Jane Austen, Chawton, Hampshire| The Culturium
Wednesday, April 30, 2025: Welcome to our April cocktail hour. It’s been a busy but not very fun month for us. Besides the ongoing degradation of our democracy, our economy, our foreign allia…| ~ wander.essence ~
April 22, 2022 - In the 60th anniversary year of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, and the first anniversary of The Ecological Disciple, we look at a piece of writing that can help us take on even our current environmental crises. By Louise Conner| The Ecological Disciple
Dietmar Busse: Fairytales 1991-1999 at Amant| LONESOME PRESS
Across three decades working in I.T., I've had the opportunity to observe some spectacularly good and spectacularly bad managers. I feel like writing an homage to the three that were the most memorable. --- Name obfuscation methodology I will be using the real name of the individuals mentioned, but I …| R.L. Dane
Reading Time: 12minutes This here is a friendly introduction to linguistics for programmers. There are many ways to improve our programming skills: watching videos, reading articles, hackathons, and doing code competitions. But there’s another way that gives us less time in front of an IDE: Learning to think about how programming works. We’re not talking about how compilersRead More| Frank M Taylor
Sayantika Mandal's essay "Mother Tongue" can be read here. Check it out and check out her interview!| december magazine
A Grief Fulfilled| rldane.space
By HandYou stood at some imaginedprecipice complaining aboutthe circuitry of your skinthe way the cells weresoldered by a boy whosefather never taught him how. You remembered coweringin| Portland Review
WARWICK, R.I. — A story by Tony Pacitti, inspired by a walk through Rocky Point, an abandoned amusement park.| Scrawl Place
A soul walks, dreams in its lonesome. What is housed in this museum of melancholic romance?1 A musician fighting with the void.2 A sculptor caressing the form within. A philosopher who perceives mysterious powers that cannot be explained.3 A poet producing sounds in a private theater of mourning. Alchemists. Voyagers. Healers. Those who respond to…| LONESOME PRESS
Friday, October 20, 2023: On our way from Carlsbad to Alamogordo, out in the middle of nowhere, we stopped for a few goodies at Tom & Pam Runyon Ranches, with its funky vibe and “non-gun-…| ~ wander.essence ~
Jack Kerouac's "Alone on a Mountaintop" beautifully explores the art of being on one's own atop Desolation Peak, Washington State.| The Culturium
February 22, 2024 - A Sand County Alamanac, published 75 years ago, still has much to teach us about the land and our place upon it. By Louise Conner| The Ecological Disciple
January 25, 2024 - First up in a short series, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard, is a work that has significantly shaped how I, and many others, see the natural world and our relationship to it. By Louise Conner| The Ecological Disciple
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
