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Exodus

He was late for work. He made the right-hand turn while looking left and drove directly into the bison. In the fractional moment before his deploying airbag filled his field of vision, he made eye contact with the animal. The animal slowly wheeled and faced oncoming traffic on Lincoln. With a sound like cinderblocks clattering … Continue reading →

The Armada of Golden Dreams: Buried Ships Beneath San Francisco

Filed under: Projects, Uncategorized Tagged: audio tours of san francisco, buried ships, george pfau, Gold Rush, Invisible City Audio Tours, jesse solomon clark, lj moore, maritime history, San Francisco history, san francisco poets, san francisco writers, the armada of golden dreams Continue reading →

an author’s dream come true: a generous, thoughtful review of small, fierce things

This morning, my colleague, publisher, and fellow scribbler Jason Buchholz emailed me to ask if I had seen the review of my recent book of flash fiction, small, fierce things in Mary: a Journal of New Writing. I had not. As the writers out there know, and most readers probably don’t, the publishing world is not what the … Continue reading →

The Final Strand

She learned to weave a nest by watching her parents. It was a skill and a language, a music she could not describe except by building it around herself from strands of hair and fluff and old strips of cloth. Her parents assured her there was nothing she couldn’t achieve if she worked hard enough. … Continue reading →

abandoned vessel, Skansbukta, Billefjord, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Archipelago

pen and ink: LJ Moore 2015Filed under: arctic circle Tagged: abandoned vessels, arctic circle, lj moore, skansbukta, spitspergen Continue reading →

small, fierce things are here!

I am so proud and grateful to Achiote Press for making this book something I could hold in my hand. It began in 2013 when I sailed the arctic circle with a group of artists and came back empty… or I thought I was empty. For months I couldn’t write. Then one day I saw … Continue reading →

Announcing my new book of illustrated flash fiction: small, fierce things

  Dear Readers, In February of last year, we brought you news of our friend LJ Moore’s limited handmade chapbook small, fierce things, a project we fell in love with from the beginning for its sheer transportive magic. For the last eighteen months, LJ has been working to expand the collection’s stories and drawings. It’s … Continue reading →

impressions of svalbard (2)

Pyramiden was an actively haunted ghost town. Weeks could go by with no visitors, and then one afternoon a cruise ship might arrive unannounced carrying 700 tourists, with well-dressed women making their way up the rutted dirt road in high heels, and not even one of the crew thinking to bring a gun, despite the … Continue reading →

children of the wind (1)

i walk on the beach a lot. i have noticed that dead birds often come to rest on the tide line, lying in the sand in shapes that i can’t help but find beautiful. i am going to be posting a series of drawings based on the birds i find. i am calling it children … Continue reading →

derelict

                read my  100 word story, “derelict” featured on 100 word story: http://www.100wordstory.org/4621/dere... under: Uncategorized Continue reading →