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*Faints*
Glossolalia Flash Fiction is a pretty new and very small literary journal which publishes stories under 500 words ( Read more... ) -
I'm actually alive...
So this is how my semester is going ( Read more... ) -
Summer Reading: Part Three
Little Children by Tom Perrotta. Satire about suburban life, full of perverse affairs and a child molester. Often vulgar, but actually funny in places, and a really good ending. Not for the easily offended.
Cotton Song by Tom Bailey. Second novel by the professor teaching my novel class. Prose is pretty much perfect, setting excellently drawn. ( Read more... ) -
Summer Reading: Part Two
The list continues, in chronological order if I can remember right:
The Good Mother by Sue Miller. This one started to annoy me about halfway through because it looked to be shaping into a somewhat trashy romance novel, but luckily that didn't happen. I'd even dare say the second half was better. Overall, pretty engaging except for a rough patch ( Read more... ) -
Funding!
House Bill 5535 could double funding for the Peace Corps over the next two years. Urge your congressmen to support it!
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Summer Reading: Part One
The list for my Novel-Writing class is like ten books long, but I'm cramming spme pleasure reading in there, too. Here's what I've read so far this summer.
Lisey's Story by Stephen King. Truly a heartfelt and meaningful peace of writing. My favorite by King to date.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Scarily possible. An important book.
Duma ( Read more... ) -
It's in the mail
So today is a milestone. Sort of ( Read more... ) -
Poetry!
It's official. I'm taking a poetry workshop in the fall. (Also a novel-writing workshop, but who's counting ( Read more... ) -
It's all in the motive.
Observation twenty:
God does not want us to try by ourselves; God does not want us to do nothing and just rely on Him; God wants us to try because we rely on Him. -
Ah, variance...
I may have to take a religion class or two at some point ( Read more... )