Decisions must be made regarding Port Lightning listening posts. Meanwhile, Independence preparations continue…

We’re supposed to do this with yarrow stalks, but “coins,” he says, “are more indicative of global currency flow.” I stand to leave. Scraping my chair back. He shakes his head and swirls his coffee: “more modern,” he says. I sit down again. Take a sip of mine. Given the swirling streams of capital – [...]

Port Lightning would have been an important pitstop along the Silk Road or an alternate sea route. During the immediate pre-history of Feral City, the Island would have been played a prominent role during the Iran-Iraq war and Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan. As the story progresses (1989-1999), the island would have been at least a [...]

Remove dust jackets from hardcover books before use; Drafts should be completed and started over from the remembered remnants; “Real writing” takes place over winter break; Anxiety is normal and should be encouraged (i.e. the productive kind); Workshop leaders will continue to confuse first-person narrators with their progenitors — even in graduate school; Writing about [...]