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People ask me all the time where I get my ideas for my poems and stories. I usually answer by talking about writers who have influenced me. One of my favorite genres is the Southern Gothic, and my favorite Southern Gothic writer is Flannery O’Connor. I first encountered O’Connor in an American li...

En el capítulo de una serie que me gusta, aparece una mujer hiperventilando atrapada en un ascensor, piensa que se va a morir. Casi llora y dice no, que todo va a estar bien, porque si la mente puede inventar cosas malas por qué no puede inventar cosas buenas. Pero no se convence. Respira desespe...

There’s something about the holidays that magnifies our deepest emotions. Our joy and our pain collide, dizzying us at times. Our comfort and our grief come together, often leaving us searching for answers. In the midst of the carols, the lights and hunts for the perfect gifts, we sometimes floun...

My World War II “Journey”

Q – In what movie did we meet the character, Clarice Starling?
Q – Who said, “Each day provides its own gifts”?
Q – In 1969, which musical artist introduced us to “Crimson and Clover”?

For Christmas 1984, my dad gave me a...

The numbers of people who marched worldwide Friday did not exceed the 7+Million who marched on Sept. 20th and 27th — that will happen next year. The impact of the Friday actions, timed to coincide with the global Climate Conference, the COP25 in Madrid, was powerful.

In Los Angeles, Climate Strik...

The towpath along the Lagan River, which runs through the centre of Belfast, was a hive of activity yesterday lunchtime as I ran along it. Fellow runners and walkers were making the most of the rare sunshine. The river itself was quiet, no rowers or other fun seekers to be seen on the water. A cr...

I’ve been on mute for a little while. Taking in life, adjusting to new circumstances. It placed a rather rusty spanner in any reviewing or writing plans that I had concocted.

The reason? After two years of knowing that something inside of me wasn’t quite right I finally got a diagnosis in October....

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“Faith like a mustard seed.”* That’s one of those bizarre statements of Jesus. How can something so seemingly insignificant be the measure by which a person’s faith could move something so significant as a mountain?

[ima...

Today’s #CleanWIP theme and collaborative article is Decorate. [More info]

Use CleanWIP Magazine’s #CleanWIP hashtag with lines from a work-in-progress and your tweet might be included in a https://t.co/yUHUbxZp23 collaborative article for authors who lean *clean* and readers who love them. The #C...

“Mars is the next frontier.”
-Arthur C. Clarke

Will Mars be a wild west or a strictly by-the-book operation?

Looking at the imagined settled Mars in fiction so far, it seems one scenario is just as likely as the other.

For example, Total Recall imagines a Mars colony town with saloons, prostitutes,...

I threw the
paint tins into the back of the van. Why the hell am I doing this, I asked
myself. I’m a final year university student studying literature, with a major
in dangling modifiers.

The answer was
simple. My flatmate selfishly contracted the bora virus two days ago. He’d got
this painting job lin...

You were born two weeks before Christmas, and so spent that those first weeks of your life bombarded by the sounds of holiday songs, the flickering light of bad Hallmark movies streaming on the television, and the smell of sweets I entertain each December. In t...

Mit einer einzigen schmierigen Formulierung erklärt sich ein Stadtoberhaupt für unwählbar. Dass der Mann ungebildet ist und nicht weiß, was der Begriff tragisch bedeutet, gehört zur Déformation profe ...

We can give should a lot of power over our lives if we are not careful. I don’t care who we are shoulding. When we should a person or situation, we are fighting the reality of what is. Shoulding is a form of shaming ourselves and others. I used...

“As the sun sets and the sun rises, one thing stands still.

As the torrents of rain fall from the sky and the brilliant colorful birds fly, one thing stands still.

When the moon rises and scrapes the horizon and children, age, learn then wise’n, one thing stands still.

While the...

I’m excited to announce that the audiobook version of my book, Content 10x: More Content, Less Time, Maximum Results is out now! You can get it on Amazon, Audible and Apple!

Although it took a lot of time and effort to record the audiobook over at Rebel Base Media Studios in Sheffield, UK, it was...

Dicen que Kirk Douglas cumplió el pasado lunes 103 años y por lo visto esperan que nos lo creamos así por las buenas. Es verdad que yo personalmente no tengo ningún motivo concreto para no hacerlo, pero entenderán que –además de que, para empezar, 103 años me parezcan muchos para una estrella de...

Got back from New York last night and still decompressing. The TAHRIR IS NOW night at Joe's Pub was powerful, special, and immensely emotional. One of the highlights for me was when the crew, slyly scattered between the audience, shouted “down with the president” at the top of their lungs, get...