🌟🌟🌟 By Douglas Adams Recommend to Sci-fi lovers I don't know if I'm the best person review this book. I'm not usually a huge Sci-fi fan. I get bogged down in the made up names and get distracted by technology details that date the work. It was no different with this book. The story follows … Continue reading Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I sit at my computer biting my nails. It's a bad habit I fall into when I'm highly anxious. I scroll through the screen reading submission guidelines and articles in Literary Journals and magazines. What is it about reading other people's work that makes one feel inadequate? I stare at the glossy photos of the … Continue reading Impostor Syndrome
The gaffer blows his glass with ease and elegance. He stands before the red-hot furnace and dips his blowpipe into the molten sand. He swings the pipe up and out. He is nimble on his feet, balanced in his shoulders. He walks toward the block, swinging the pipe end over end. His intent face is … Continue reading The Gaffer
The boxes stand packed in the entryway like little sentinels at the bottom of the stairs. A hush permeates the house, which is unusual for this house. No one screeches down the hall or thumps up the stairs. No echo of shattering glass trills from the kitchen. Olivia walks through the rooms one by one, … Continue reading Saying Goodbye
🌟🌟 & 1/2 Recommend to history lovers. I've had my eye on this book for some time, and I was excited to start it, but the reality was a bit disappointing. The story recounts what happened to the female dial-painters who worked in factories painting luminous watch dials with radium-laced paint. It is a story … Continue reading Book Review: Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Have you ever met someone who loves books and stories just as much, if not more, than you? You can always tell another literary fanatic by the way their eyes light up when they recommend a book to you. This isn't just an: "Oh, that's nice. You should check it out," kind of light in … Continue reading The Maniacal Reader
“You’re him, aren’t you?” asks the woman in the seat across from Daniel. A subway station zooms by outside the train windows. A flash of color and then black again. Daniel sinks lower in his seat and casts his glance toward the half dozen people littered through the empty car. The motion of the train … Continue reading Reality v Entertainment
“Come here so I can lay my head on your shoulder.” Propped up in bed by a mountain of pillows, he rests his blue-lined, much-scared hand down on the comforter beside him. The other hand lies across his stomach, IV’s and plastic sprouting from it and running down the side of the bed. His wife … Continue reading Her Favorite Place
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Recommend to western lovers and lovers of stories with darker themes. Every once in a while I get a hankerin' to read a western. It's not my preferred genre, but I have enjoyed most of my forays into the literary wild west. This story follows a woman's quest to keep her land and home … Continue reading Book Review: Savage Country by Robert Olmstead
The downy quilt of winter has returned. Front yards spill white toward the dark, wet slash of the street. Garlands festoon the front of my neighbors' houses. I've decorated for Christmas myself, and I find life settling into that familiar hectic holiday pace. When to write! The snatched moments come between car rides and family … Continue reading Everything and Nothing
Seeking Prose 