em dash
Reclaiming the EM Dash: Don't Be Punctuated by AI
As a teacher, proofreader, and writer, I am perhaps unusually passionate about the em dash. I feel personally incised by the way people are abandoning this punctuation mark.
Poetry
Emily Dickinson's Poems Become Public Domain
Copyright ends, creativity begins. Dickinson’s Further Poems is now public—learn the story of feuds, fame, and freedom in art. When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, she left an astonishing 1,800 unpublished poems behind. And, because of a strange quirk of copyright law, an important part of this
Which of the Six Editors Does Your Story Need?
Birthing a story takes effort and dedication, and your editor is the midwife.
Receptive and Non-Receptive Communities
On the nature of self-limitations.
Kenning Your Way Through Writer’s Block
Contrasts are a powerful method of constructing new ideas and new trains of thought.
Red Streets
“All the good luck in the world doesn’t matter, someone always forgets to lock their window or their door.”
A Perishable Date
“Don’t go out with him!” A woman had appeared, suddenly, right next to the check-out counter.
Flash Fiction
An Advanced Course in Practical History
The librarian smiled. “That’s the book you need, no doubt.”
Flash Fiction
The Sad Life of Jeremy Day
She is currently screaming obscenities at him while police shove her into the back of their squad car.
Flash Fiction
Boots Like Drumbeats
“You! We’re looking for a vagrant. Boy, about ten.”
Strangers
He imagined saying “Help” to a passerby.
Flash Fiction
The Beginning or the End?
The hospital was just ahead now, pearly white in the rain’s fog.