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Book Review: ‘Made You Up’ (2015)
The short: 3.5/5 ✦. An fantastic novel with great characters that perhaps falters in realism. The long: I have conflicting feelings about this book, hence the somewhat wishy-washy rating of 3.5 stars....
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Essay: The Quest for Religion
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. — Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur Medieval Romance is fraught with the supernatural, be it three-headed...
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Book Review: ‘More Than This’ (2014)
The short: 4/5 ✦. It’s Patrick Ness. ‘Nuff said. The long: Okay, apologies for the sass up there, but surprising no one, this book is phenomenal. I have yet to read a Ness book that I didn’t like, and...
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Flash Fiction: Letters
“Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love.” — Soraya Diase Coffelt Dear Mr Shore, I saw your painting at a museum today. I went...
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Book Review: ‘A Gathering of Shadows’ (2016)
The short: 4/5 ✦. The detailed writing, powerful storytelling, exciting world, and well-developed characters make this novel another win in the Shades of Magic series. The long: When you read a lot of...
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Essay: A Look into the Lives of Sei Shōnagon and Hildegard of Bingen
“Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.” — Sei...
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Flash Fiction: Crumbling
“Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.” ― Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd Ann hadn’t seen Lucas in a while. After the day of the drug test, he had just . . . disappeared. Her manager, Derek, came...
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Flash Fiction: Barrier
“Fear is the highest fence.” — Dudley Nichols The chain-link fence rattled noisily when Jonny walked into it. He jerked back, almost dropping his phone. Nina snickered from behind, and Amy made a...
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Flash Fiction: Retreat
“In the midst of the turbulence, we hang onto hope.” — Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind The sky was a poisonous yellow, streaked with vicious green. Billows of black smog oozed across...
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Short Story: Curiosity, Part 1
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” — Frank Borman The bird didn’t move when Pip approached it, though he kept his distance. It cocked its red-capped head to the side, looking him...
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Short Story: Curiosity, Part 2
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney Pip shot up off his bed and began pacing the floor...
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Editing: That vs. Which
Continuing that one article, which was about you know who. Pronouns! Dontcha just love ’em?! I do. Who, me? (Two pronouns, one sentence: Perfection.) Anyway, as I said last week, I probably won’t be...
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Book Review: ‘Calamity’ (2016)
The short: 4/5 ✦. A somewhat lackluster finale to this otherwise fantastically epic trilogy. The long: Maybe I just had my expectations too high this time? I mean, here’s the thing: It’s a really,...
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Short Story: Pink
“Bears need people. People need bears.” — Pam Brown Clank! Clank! Bop! Kevin swore. Becky flinched. The game operator gave a bland but sympathetic smile. “Sorry. Want to try again?” “We’re good,” Becky...
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Editing: A Masterlist of Editing Resources
A masterlist of multiple resources that could be helpful for editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, and even writers! This may come as a shock to some of you, but this isn’t the only copyediting website...
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Book Review: ‘Paper and Fire’ (2016)
The short: 4/5 ✦. A worthy, if mildly flawed, installment in The Great Library series. The long: Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Young teen discovers the government is not as it says; in fact, it...
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Flash Fiction: Running
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.” — William Shakespeare The thud, thud, thud of Jessie’s tennis shoes were consistent on the pavement. She was trying to hurry, but...
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Editing: NaNoWriMo
The (one) time editing isn’t important. You may have looked at the title and wondered, “What does National Novel Writing Month have to do with editing?” And the answer to that is everything and...
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Book Review: ‘The Last Star’
The short: 2/5 ✦. After a promising start, this disappointing final installment of The Fifth Wave trilogy crashes and burns. The long: This book is a hot mess. I wasn’t exactly the biggest fan of the...
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Short Story: Clues & Confrontations
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides Mrs. Powell was thin and hunched, with wispy grey hair and very white teeth. She scowled at Shirley through the door, which...
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