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In two years I’ve written 150 flash fiction pieces. Some of them qualify as a stand-alone stories; some of them are just scenes, snippets of larger things.  Many are sketches about my beloved cat Squiggy or pre-rough drafts for my novel. A few are about mental illness, depression and grief. Some of them are notContinue reading “2 years, 150 stories”

Clarity of voice and clarity of detail are at odds in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, a novel that tackles the complicated and desperate lives of a family living in the South in the first part of the twentieth century. The narrators struggle to grasp reality and to make sense of their experiences andContinue reading “The Shift in the Shadow’s Distance: William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury”