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“I could never explain how a story could be worth more than a dance with a prince”

My short story “Heart’s Desire” is now online at Read Me A Story, Ink., a reading resource site for kids, parents, and teachers. Take a look–or a listen! “PERFUME SCENTED the air as my stepsisters left the house, trading names of princes they longed to dance with at the ball. My stepmother, Vivienne, crossed the room […]

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TusCon!

I fed the opening of Pride and Prejudice to fourteen AI content generators. Here’s what happened.

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So there I was, scrolling through social media, when an ad popped up on my feed. “Write blog posts 10X faster with robots!” it said. O-kay, I thought. Sure. What could possibly go wrong? A bit of googling later, I’d fallen down the rabbit hole of AI content generation—sites that promise to take the pesky

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Autumn sneaks in in the desert

AITA For Infecting My Cousin with Uncontrollable Hulk Powers?

All Those Defiant Sparks

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All my life, I’ve believed that no matter how dark this world gets, there’s light behind that darkness, light that always shines through in the end. This belief has been fundamental to my writing, to the sometimes-dark stories I tell and to all the stories I tell. Terrible things happen. But light—something within humanity that generates light—finds

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Decades Come and Decades Go

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Or what I’ve been doing the past ten years Recently, when I told an extended family member I had work to do, he snapped back at me, “What work? When was the last time you wrote a book — ten years ago?” His response says more about him than me, of course. I’ve gotten “come on, you’re

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Heat Wave (a found poem)

“Once long ago, there was a seal who loved the sea…”

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Writing is a strange business sometimes. We think we’re writing for readers, and then it turns out we’re writing for ourselves. We think we’re writing for our present selves, and then it turns out we’re writing for the children-we-were or the adults-we-will be.Or both. Today I came upon ”Seal Story,” a selkie short I wrote

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