( Can you pull in Leviathan? )

It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but how many "words" is the picture itself?

One. A singular image that stands like an Asian written character that by itself holds a single thing, action or idea. Alone, it speaks; the caption but a handy modifier.

Some chide Twitter for its brevity, but most notable quotes we cherish and repeat ( Read more... )

What was it, that started me on this path?

Can one be a "born" storyteller? To a degree, I guess. You can have two kids raised up around books and stories and reading, and one will want to be a writer, the other a librarian. Every day a youth goes to Broadway and thinks, "I want to be on that stage!" while another thinks "I could write something ( Read more... )

I’m wearing my coat. I have my shoes on. I have my mother’s blessing as I reach for that eye-level knob to the front door, and step outside alone. It’s a beautiful November day in Arkansas.

Time to go hunting.

I know it’s up to me. Mom said we’d have monster soup for lunch, and there’s no better monster hunter than a four-year-old boy.
Outside, I look ( Read more... )