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Going Places with Short Stories
By Geo Ong Here are two collections of short fiction (and one collection of short nonfiction) with a strong sense of place, with themes reflective of its environment. Reading these is probably the...
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Story on a String: Road Grit, Chapter Five
Road Grit Chapter 1 * Chapter 2 * Chapter 3 * Chapter 4 *Join the story!* Chapter Five by Anna Kirgo When Gray returned from crouching behind the Chevy, where he’d fumbled through cleaning up the...
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Story on a String: Road Grit, Chapter Six
Road Grit Chapter 1 * Chapter 2 * Chapter 3 * Chapter 4* Chapter 5 *Join the story!* Chapter Five by Dominique Andrée Hinman Joe continued to look at the girl for an exhaled breath of a moment before...
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Story on a String: Road Grit, Chapter Seven
Road Grit Chapter 1 * Chapter 2 * Chapter 3 * Chapter 4 * Chapter 5 * Chapter 6 *Join the story!* Chapter Seven by Sarah Jost Gray threw his head back and let out a whoop. “Yeah, you’re from another...
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The New York City Reader
by Geo Ong Before I made the move to New York, I planned to prepare myself the only way I knew how: by reading. So I made up my very own NYC reading list, by no means comprehensive, but I overlooked...
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Book People: James Laughlin and New Directions
by Geo Ong James Laughlin had aspirations to be a great poet. A friend of his, a man by the name of Ezra Pound, told him as only a friend (or a critic) could: ‘You’re never going to be any good as a...
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On Motivation
By Geo Ong Part of being a practicing writer is making sure you are always motivated. Inspiration and motivation are two different things but they can often be closely linked. One can feel inspired all...
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That’s What She Said
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. —Eudora Welty, from her story ‘The Wide Net’
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The Spring Urchin Bookshelf
Spring is here, folks! And you know what that means, don’t you? New books to embrace while you frolic in the foliage! Here’s what’s on our sunny, colourful horizon. Geo’s books Safe As Houses by...
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The Fall Bookshelf
It’s that time of year again – time to snuggle up next to the fire with a good book or two. Here’s what’s on our Fall bookshelf. Geo’s books Currently reading: The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross I’m only...
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