Author Archives: Editor

Training the Next Generation of Storytellers

Coming soon to a convention (hopefully) near you! My Writing the Entertaining Story workshop. I love helping authors to get across the story in their heads, to connect with  audiences and readers. It’s an extension of what we do here … Continue reading

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A&A reviews Einstein in the Attic

Einstein in the Attic (Solstice Publishing ) by Dana Dargos and Said Al Bizri I was captivated by this book. It starts in media res with a young Lebanese schoolboy, Adam Remmi, witnessing one of the atrocities of war right … Continue reading

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I’ll Cry Later

Lauren McBride I’ll Cry Later the sound of hail     struggling into     an oversized spacesuit     yours, my love pounding our tiny star ship     ship’s air leaking     seconds left     to seal the suit hull breach     raging micrometeor storm     ripped through my suit … Continue reading

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Kinnordy

Manuel W Balaguer-Cortés Kinnordy   At Kinnordy, the loch is old and her memory intact: She remembers her former dominion where she spread out, large and long, in wetlands and water courses. She remembers how far then she could feel the … Continue reading

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The Stars are watching us

Richard Weaver The Stars are watching us with intense interest tonight, staring back as we stare at them. The James Webb telescope has gone live a million miles away and made life on Earth as mundane as Velveeta cheese. It … Continue reading

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On the Shore

Denise Dumars On the Shore A black wind slows the movement of the frosted, ink-dark waves two moons tell tides in tug-of-war strange shapes both dead and living decorate the distant dunes. Sere sluggish beast appears to know just where … Continue reading

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Big Rig Off Dauphin Island, AL 

Ann Thornfield-Long Big Rig Off Dauphin Island, AL  They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and the … Continue reading

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Twilight Pulses

Chris Wood Twilight Pulses Nimbus clouds shroud and veil the sunset. Orange and violet halos, shadow the lightning, silent and electric. Fuchsia splashes the evening with memories      ricocheting    like electrons across time, scattering images of you. I remember your dark … Continue reading

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Missing

Marge Simon  Missing On a morning stroll I see my mother in the impossible now, fused with misted sunlight. She stands quietly in a bright almost dress, a bit of fashion unbecoming even if it were real, but she’d never … Continue reading

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Upgrade

“Upgrade” by Trey Dowell  Twenty-five years of renting cars had taught Hector Ramirez many things that were often true. A smile costs nothing. Service matters. The customer is always right. It had also taught him one thing that was always … Continue reading

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