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Into the Cave

Thoughts on long-form revision. Writers are inventors of emotionally charged spaces who tend to forge ahead through stories, through caves where few have ventured and with only our pitiful headlamps, our senses to feel the way forward. We are also our own pack mules, sorting and gathering the supplies we think we will need for […]

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On Cats, Dogs, and Writing

Literature is filled with a menagerie of animal characters – White Fang, Old Yeller, Black Beauty, Aslan, Algernon, Charlotte and Wilbur, Napoleon and Boxer to name a few – but for me, one of the animal characters that stands out is a cat, a very unlucky black cat, in Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of the […]

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