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January 20, 2014
Porous, Chapter Three: The Blackness In Between The Stars
This is the third chapter of my reader-driven blog serial, Porous. If you need to catch up, go back to Chapter One: Immolation or Chapter Two: Sky-Honey. The Blackness In Between The Stars “Kawai, you will have to learn to sleep without the light on sometime.” “Another night, kasaan. I want the lights on tonight.” My mother […]
January 15, 2014
Author Interview: Drew Chial
Please welcome Drew Chial to the Z-Axis. I’ve admired Drew’s work for a long time, notably for his incredibly in-depth and passionate blog posts exhorting writers to originality and creativity. Drew is an author, graphic artist, aspiring voice actor, and a musician living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He writes short stories that he bills as Twilight Zone fan […]
January 13, 2014
Working Title: Porous, Chapter 2
This week’s installment of the reader-driven blog serial, Porous. If you haven’t read the first chapter, please click here. Sky-Honey Flakes of snow curl around me like yesterday’s flames. They’re as puffy as clouds, as wet as Kuri’s tongue lapping at my cheeks. They drip from the sky in great empty breaths. I brush them out […]
January 8, 2014
Author Interview: Matthew Wayne Selznick
Please welcome Matthew Wayne Selznick to the Z-Axis. Matt is an author, creator, and creative services provider living in Long Beach, California. He’s the creator of the popular Sovereign Era storyworld, the free fantasy serial Walk Like A Stranger: Passing Through Home, and Reading The Amazing Spider-Man Volume One, among many other books, short stories, […]
January 7, 2014
In Memoriam
This draft has been floating around for about nine months. I’m not sure, even now, that I’m making the right decision by publishing it. It’s raw and it’s painful and there’s no right way for me to say the things I want to say. This may even be offensive or hurtful to some. I don’t […]
January 6, 2014
Working Title: Porous, Chapter 1
This is the first chapter of the story that resulted from all the amazing feedback I got from the prompt I posted on Friday. I’d love for you to read it and tell me what you think. Immolation Petrol. Chemical. The sweet scent of gasoline that burns the back of your throat. Slick on my […]
January 3, 2014
It’s My Birthday!
Today, January 3, I, Amira K. Makansi, am 25 years old. A quarter of a century. When I was born the Berlin Wall was still around, the Internet hadn’t been ‘invented’, and ‘smartphone was a nonsensical word. Now I’m twenty-five, thinking about history and wondering where I will be in another twenty-five years. Birthdays are […]
January 2, 2014
Blog Awards, Or, Those Whom I Love
A great way to ring in 2014 – my good friend Nillu has just nominated me for a blogging award called the “WordPress Family Award”! I have no idea what this means, but I guess I’m in some sort of family now, and I’ve inspired at least one person with all these words I type. […]
2014: Looking Forward As A Writer
Talking to Carol Cooper yesterday about resolutions for the New Year got me thinking about my own. I don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions, but this past year was full of so much promise, so much untapped potential, that I feel like now is a good time to focus on self-improvement to turn that potential […]
January 1, 2014
Writer Wednesday: Interview With Dr. Carol Cooper
Meet Carol Cooper, doctor, journalist, and most recently, novelist. Her debut novel One Night at the Jacaranda is about dating but has darker undercurrents. Carol has also authored a string of non-fiction titles on health and parenting. She works as a family doctor in London and is a journalist for The Sun, the biggest-selling newspaper in the United Kingdom. […]
