“Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.” Don’t think about finishing the whole novel or story. Focus on the next sentence, the next paragraph, the next scene. Every large project becomes manageable when broken into small pieces.
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Book Review
Major Lessons from “21 Days to Awaken the Writer Within” by Lisa Fugard “Words can turn into concrete on a screen, paragraphs become stone monoliths, and there can be a hesitancy to get in there and change structure. Do this with sentences, and soon you will be shifting your paragraphs around as well.” Writing, like
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Book Review, Creative Writing
“Cancer Courts My Mother” by LindaAnn LoSchiavo “When medicine has nothing more to give, There’s only daughters and morphine prescribed By doctors never seen. She can’t describe Her suffering but seems less combative Since Cancer came a-courting. He’ll forgive Coy hesitance. All patients yield to bribes Of pain relief, embrace the death of light. Seductive,
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Poetry Collection
“You’ve Got it All Wrong” by Ken Tomaro. “I cleaned the apartment today, changed the lightbulb in the refrigerator and made stew from the leftover lamb my sister didn’t eat I’m tired, it’s cold and dark here and I am afraid of what’s out there beyond the glass of the balcony door beyond the neighbor
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Poetry Collection
“I leave the me who loved him. to rest upon his body. Now I am someone entirely new. A black dog, a broken heart.” (”Keep Things Simple”) Nolcha Fox is synonymous with experimentation, as evident in her collaborations with Mike Armstrong on “End of Earth” and Ken Tomaro on “Seesaw, Quirky Poems.” She startled, amazed,
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Poetry Collection
” Pain is the perfect weight loss plan Food tastes bitter Even cheesecake makes me flee.” (From “Pain Will Do That”) “BroKen Rengay: Unruly Poetry” challenges the traditional Japanese poetry style of rengay with a fresh, modern twist. Nolcha Fox, Melissa Lemay, and Barbara Leonhard co-authored 30 six-part poems that combine cleverness, honesty, sharp social
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Short Story Collection
“101 Stories of Love” by William Waldorf caught my attention because I expected an anthology of love stories. But love takes many forms, and Waldorf shows this in his beautifully crafted poetry. In his collection, love echoes through many voices, sometimes as an isosceles triangle or baked in the desert like forgotten toast. William Waldorf’s
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Poetry Collection
if god were a woman “there would be no war she could not bear her children maimed, killed, tortured or the poor denied medical help or food in her name a mother cares therefore god is not a woman but a tool for cruelty by cold-hearted men with a passion for destruction and self-preservation with
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Book Review
I’m someone who doesn’t just read books, but lives through them. Reading isn’t merely a school requirement or part of the curriculum. It’s intimate, sacred, and comforting. A book can keep your eyelids open late at night after a day’s drudgery. The fascination of one more chapter feels like an undeniable invitation: dig one more gold mine, relish one more emotion, live one more life.
The Lemon by Mohammed Mrabet The story of “The Lemon” was first told in Moroccan Arabic and later translated into English by Paul Bowles. It follows Abdeslam, a 12-year-old boy who runs away from his village after his father beats him for fighting with his French teacher. Alone in Tangier, he navigates between cafés, ports,
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