Category: writing

  • itchy teeth

    time has been slow here, but now it is certain: my days at 57 Department of Internal Affairs Street are numbered. after going through the ups and downs of a solo residency, from crushed-out excitement to awful loneliness, through all the novelties and frustrations of working in a strange environment as a near-mute illiterate, i…

  • june short story podcast: the air you need

    the air you need is a weird story about a diver. it came from whidbey island in puget sound, where i was visiting family in 2008. it’s a small-town joy to read the crime reports in the local paper… one favourite was a report of a man who was arrested in the supermarket car park…

  • in precarious weather

    this via bookninja has comforted me immensely, particularly the following points: 24 The writing life, like life in general, has a sacramental and a secretarial side. As years pass and duties accrue, the secretarial, clerical mode can grow like a lymphoma and start to squeeze life from the sacramental. 25 So learn to be irresponsible…