The sky is bright today The sky is bright today Pitter-patter, says the rain, beating on my thigh My hands are alive The water falls in myriad ways A fern swallows me The sky is bright today — This poem is meant to accompany this photo, which is a visual representation of an epiphany of…
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Writer, explorer, and keeper of Alder the dog.
I Am Fire
Great granitic catacombs, hollowed out by flame rust inside my soul. Magma cracks through the crust of my earth, smoking. Metal, molten, seethes at my core; the history of my formation, tumultuous, written in every layer of my skin. Black ash spouts from my mouth, volcanic, I erupt, bursting, spitting, lashing, lava tongues and rocky…
Read MoreWhat To Drink With What You Read
So, fellow readers, you’ve just added twelve books to your Kindle queue and bought three used books at your local indie bookseller. If you’re anything like me, by this point you’re starting to experience chest constriction, loss of vision and muscle control, and a powerful desire to curl up under your bedsheets and never make…
Read MoreWriting As Devotional
“A professional writer is just an amateur who didn’t quit.” I quit writing this year. Not on purpose. It was definitely not on purpose. Unlike my friend J. Edward Paul, who gives up writing every other day and is only lured back to it by the fact that his stories are simply bursting out of…
Read MoreBook Review: Who Is Evelyn Dae by Sarah La Fleur
A few weeks back I won something in a random draw contest. It was the first time in my life I’ve ever won something at a raffle-style event, so that alone was special. It was made even more special because the thing that I won happened to be a paperback copy of Who Is Evelyn Dae,…
Read MoreFour Ways To Improve Your Dialogue and Write Better Characters
Writing dialogue, is, in my opinion, one of the most difficult aspects of writing. Description? I’m all over that. I’ll describe shit to you all day long. Character development? Challenging, but can come naturally as the plot moves along. Plot? Easy. If you ever took an English class in high school you know how to write a…
Read MoreBook Blogger Confessions Tag
I don’t usually do these games. In fact, I haven’t done one in almost a year. I think the last time I did a blog chain or tag game was January of last year. But because I haven’t blogged much in a few months, and I’m trying to remember how to do it, I’m going…
Read MoreThanksgiving, Ferguson, and The Hunger Games
Warning: This is a controversial post on a controversial subject. If you don’t enjoy having your assumptions challenged, please close this tab now and feel free to return when I’m writing about lighter, happier matters. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Not least because it’s one of the few times of the year when…
Read MoreTo Say Goodbye
“Sweet, so would I, Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing, Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night ’till it be morrow.” What a thing, I say, to say, Goodbye. You breathe petals into my ears, Hum bees into my heart. You crystallize In my fragmented…
Read MoreThe Reaping (The Seeds Book 2) by K. Makansi
HEY y’all in case you didn’t know, I WROTE A BOOK, and the lovely and delightful JESSICA P WEST decided to do me the honor of writing said book a review. Here it is. THANK YOU, JESS!
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The Z-Axis 