Friday 5/9/25 Is it really a suicide mission if everyone is going down anyway? The host site informed me--it tells me; I don't ask--that...

Thursday 5/8/25 It has always been this way. There has almost exclusively been what you see in these pages from the people of publishing...

Wednesday 5/7/25 I never do this. I'll probably take this down shortly because I can't be giving things away, but sometimes, you have to...

Wednesday 5/7/25 At the end of every school year, Ms. Moriggi’s class had a friendship day. Each student wrote their name on a piece of...

Wednesday 5/7/25 The Red Sox lost again last night, being drubbed 6-1 by the Texas Rangers. The Sox struck out another 12 times. 3 each...

Sunday 5/4/25 Sitting here this morning working on a story when I thought, you know, why don't we go to Granta 's webpage and do a prose...

Sunday 5/4/25 I encounter all of these comments from people saying they're dating with intention. These are also really boasts (Query:...

Friday 5/2/25 “There’s not a lot that you don’t already know,” God continued, “but one thing is that the retention of the security...

Friday 5/2/25 "Absolutely heartbroken to hear about the Pope's passing. A man who spent his life championing the tenants of Christ." Ah,...

Thursday 5/1/25 I've been sitting here the last few days grinding away--just doing the work--on Nightmares Be Damned: Writings About...

Thursday 5/1/25 Very few sports people would know this because they tend not to read anything, let alone have they ever read Shakespeare,...

Thursday 5/1/25 The Hound of the Baskervilles is the best of the four novels and a candidate for the best work in the Holmes canon. It's...

Tuesday 4/29/25 I feel like you have to be a sucker to care that much about the NFL draft. P.T. Barnum would see you coming from a mile...

Tuesday 4/29/25 "The literal face I make when..." Why must we talk like this? What is that "literal" doing for you? As opposed to the...

Monday 4/25/25 Today is my niece Lilah's birthday. She is nine. Unlike her older brother, she likes to read. (It is too early to know...

Monday 4/28/25 Yesterday, unfortunately, was a hang on day. There's no reason for me to live. From a personal standpoint. I didn't sleep...

Saturday 4/26/25 You really have to give it to people for how simple and stupid they manage to be. That you could turn yourself into...

Saturday 4/26/25 In the intense rivalry battles between horror archetypes (though I prefer to believe eldritch agents are closer to...

Thursday 4/24/25 Is it necessary for women to do that high-pitched, undulating, "Listen to me, don't I sound like a Theremin?" voice when...

Thursday 4/24/25 Go on Reddit and you will read posts by the person who then becomes referred to in the comments that follow as the...

Tuesday 4/22/25 Once, after years of the standard BS from an editor at n+1 named Nikil Saval, who was never going to let anything of...

Tuesday 4/22/25 Want to do another Granta prose off? Okay. This is from Moses McKenzie's "Fast by the Horns." I'm sure you'll love it....

Monday 4/21/25 In 2014, I had a short story published in the VQR called "First Responder." It pertained to--but wasn't limited to--the...

Monday 4/21/25 The Rockets better get it together fast, or they'll be bounced as the two-seed by the Warriors. Which wouldn't exactly be...