Michael Scott Monje Jr.'s Blog, page 5
October 20, 2015
Ch 48 - Fight or Flight (Imaginary Friends)
Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Monday(ish). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
The next Tuesday, Grandpa Harry picked Clay up from school and brought him home. Not to his mother, Kitty, but home, to his own ho...
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
The next Tuesday, Grandpa Harry picked Clay up from school and brought him home. Not to his mother, Kitty, but home, to his own ho...
October 13, 2015
Ch 47 - Glory Be (Imaginary Friends)
Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Monday(ish). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Even though he knew Van was telling him the truth, and even though he remembered everything he had read about the land of the dead...
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Even though he knew Van was telling him the truth, and even though he remembered everything he had read about the land of the dead...
October 6, 2015
Ch 46 - Dawn of the Dead
Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Monday(ish). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Clay was grounded to his room all day Saturday, but that was fine.
The dizziness that had greeted him on waking stayed with him, ma...
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Clay was grounded to his room all day Saturday, but that was fine.
The dizziness that had greeted him on waking stayed with him, ma...
September 30, 2015
Ch 45: The Wall
Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Monday(ish). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
In the dark, Clay felt his mind reaching out for something other than Van and his imaginings. He felt around inside himself, gropi...
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
In the dark, Clay felt his mind reaching out for something other than Van and his imaginings. He felt around inside himself, gropi...
September 22, 2015
Ch 44: Still in Saigon
Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Monday(ish). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
After they finished their ice cream, Mark Dillon drove his son home, and since the boy was not feeling talkative, he did what he u...
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
After they finished their ice cream, Mark Dillon drove his son home, and since the boy was not feeling talkative, he did what he u...
September 15, 2015
Ch 43 - Secrets of a Silent Earth
Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Monday(ish). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Clay stuck his tongue into the ice cream and wiggled it around, trying to numb its surface while also coating it in something wet...
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Clay stuck his tongue into the ice cream and wiggled it around, trying to numb its surface while also coating it in something wet...
September 8, 2015
Ch 42 - To Give of Oneself (Imaginary Friends)
Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Monday(ish). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Mark was not so hard on Clay after he saw the inside of his mouth. Being forced to show his father, there in the Boys’ room at sch...
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Mark was not so hard on Clay after he saw the inside of his mouth. Being forced to show his father, there in the Boys’ room at sch...
September 1, 2015
Ch 41: Flashes of Insight (Imaginary Friends)
Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday(ish). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Catechism class was not going well for Clay, but he no longer really expected that it would. In fact, he no longer really expected...
If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the links at the bottom of the chapter for other books in the series. You can also click on the cover images on the right.
Catechism class was not going well for Clay, but he no longer really expected that it would. In fact, he no longer really expected...
August 29, 2015
Almost Homecoming (feat. The Puzzlebox Collective)
It's been almost a year since I took to this space to speak to you.
The intervening time, it's been beautiful. I took a break, not
because I was sick of the hate, but because I did something great,
but the cost was something I wasn't predicting, so I stopped writing,
and it even silenced Clay Dillon. At least temporarily.
But you know what happens when I stop speaking?
It's time to listen, and what emerges is brilliant and scary.
I was introduced to new ways and helped to transition,
putting me in to...
The intervening time, it's been beautiful. I took a break, not
because I was sick of the hate, but because I did something great,
but the cost was something I wasn't predicting, so I stopped writing,
and it even silenced Clay Dillon. At least temporarily.
But you know what happens when I stop speaking?
It's time to listen, and what emerges is brilliant and scary.
I was introduced to new ways and helped to transition,
putting me in to...
August 26, 2015
On Technology in the Classroom
Comments are enabled, but I won't be replying to them. When I say that this is all I want to say on the subject, I mean it. I just had to put this out there, since I'm in the class preparation season and that means I have to take a lot of splash damage from people who view this topic with a "professional detachment." This isn't just a belief for me. This post is why I still teach, and providing access is the only reason I still take this splash damage from people who are, essentially, declari...
