Category Archives: story

The Power of Imagination Against Oppression

Posted on October 10, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Why do we read literature? No, really, why? Good literature goes beyond entertainment—it reaches down into the core of us and jerks us back into the heart of the world, into the heart of humanity, into the whirling depths of the human soul. That is what we need to remember. Azar Nafisi, author of Reading […] Continue reading →

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Read “Birnam Wood” by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Posted on September 21, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

My aunt learned to read tarot cards in college as a party trick. Now, every New Years when she comes to visit, she’ll pull out her stack of cards from their purple velvet pouch, shuffle them between her long-nailed hands, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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On Writing Bad Fiction

Posted on July 11, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

I just wrote a  bad story. A 26-page disaster of a story, to be specific. Now that I’ve come to the end of it, now that it’s all been punched out—I’ve come to realize that the whole thing is one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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