Description: #Audio. #OpenLetter My annual letter to the man with the bag. Excerpt: So many of my friends this year are making posts and comments about how they wish the holidays didn’t have to be so stressful and commercial, or how things were more fun when they had money. And I get it, I do, […]
Description: #Audio. #Flashfic A futuristic Christmas romance. Excerpt: “I will endeavor to remind you, in the future,” he says, and again, there’s no judgement. Just a new subroutine to be added to the many already in play. I can almost imagine his internal process. ‘Subheading: weather, cross-reference: Zoe. If weather is inclement, remind Zoe to […]
Description: #Audio. #Flashfiction. The second and third Noels aren’t what you think. Excerpt: But at the same time, we’ve commercialized that chronicle. Merchandised it. This second noel – really the two-thousand-and-somethingth noel – finds us juxtaposing stuffed stockings and decorations on sale since Halloween (a different old story, that) with the pressure to buy the […]
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