A Writers’ Shindig

We are finished posting the stories produced as a result of the A Writers Shindig workshop. Thank you dear reader. I hope you enjoyed these works from other WordPress authors. I’d like to thank Ted for pulling this group together and a crap ton of editing work. Michael who was behind the scenes. Sarah, Ted,Continue reading “A Writers’ Shindig”

An interview with Stephen Bent, author of Trees Grow Around Wire

by Sarah Orr Aten Sarah: First things first — can you tell me a little bit about your writing? How long have you been doing it? What does writing do for you? Steve: My blog is nine years old. SteveForTheDeaf came from two things. Firstly, as a long-haired, bone-idle twenty-something I spent hours debating musicContinue reading “An interview with Stephen Bent, author of Trees Grow Around Wire”

Trees Grow Around Wire

By Stephen Bret Part 3 The air outside was bright and heavy. Insects hummed in the grass. The clearing shone, almost white. Well, what passes for white around here. In each corner, where the sun caught the gravel, the bleached earth denied it had ever been mud, a bog, a puddle or dirt. It layContinue reading “Trees Grow Around Wire”

Trees Grow Around Wire

By Stephen Bent Part 2: It was not a stumble; I didn’t snag my boot on a root or slip in the wet. It was a drop. It was that precipice. And I ran straight off the edge of it. Straight off of the world I’d been hurrying through and into a deep, high-sided bowlContinue reading “Trees Grow Around Wire”

Trees Grow Around Wire

By Stephen Bent Part 1: I was 11 in 1985. We moved into Forester’s Cottage in early November, when the light went thin, and the trees stood like grey ribs around the clearing. Every winter before that, the streets had been lit by street lamps and rain on concrete, reflecting headlights. Living among these treesContinue reading “Trees Grow Around Wire”

An interview with Ted Wallenius, author of Strapped for Love

by Stephen Bent Steve: Hi Ted. I’ve got half a dozen immediate questions. We can dig down into each one for further stuff when you’ve considered them. Let’s start with origins and research. Strapped for Love feels grounded in real systems and objects, from Nevada’s brothel laws to the Vincent Black Lightning itself. Did theContinue reading “An interview with Ted Wallenius, author of Strapped for Love”

Strapped for love

Part 3 By: Ted Wallenius Everyone left the Corner Bar. Janey left with her escort. Two-Cents and Stacy rode in Two-Cents’s black GMC, and Tim went with them, in the back seat. The peed-on man went home to take a shower. The bartender wiped down the counter and went home to his TV dinner. AfterContinue reading “Strapped for love”

Strapped for love

Part 2 By: Ted Wallenius While she gathered her things together at the Broken Pony, packing the things she wanted to keep, making a pile of the things she would throw out, another pile of the shoes, clothes, and costume jewelry she knew the other girls would want, Janey Jones thought about her Dad andContinue reading “Strapped for love”

Strapped for Love

By: Ted Wallenius Part 1 “I feel free,” Two-Cents thought. A moment later he remembered the double white lines of delicious Bolivian marching powder he and Janey Jones had just hoovered up in the bathroom. The bathroom was neither men’s nor women’s; it was just a bathroom, with clean towels, artwork including a small statueContinue reading “Strapped for Love”

An interview with Emily Amsel, author of Loss

by Jeremy Miller Jeremy: Your title “Loss” is powerfully simple. Was there a loss that was most present for you while writing? Emily: Ha, nothing that complex. I’m actually just bad at titles and tend to go with the simplest thing. In this case, it’s about loss, of a child, of a life that wasContinue reading “An interview with Emily Amsel, author of Loss”