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A Meta-Workshop.2 comments

slb wrote 11 months ago: An aside: Writing fiction is like slipping into a home and taking things— hushes, aromas, and … more →

Tags: self-critique, Inner Monologue, Fiction Writing

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slb wrote 12 months ago: Five years ago, Nine baked a rainbow cake to impress Ahmir, who she’d been seeing for three ye … more →

Tags: Bitterness, grand rapids, baking disasters, overlong courtships

Delusions and Candor.1 comment

slb wrote 1 year ago: You are no flea in petrified amber, no exoskeleton for the world to fossilize. You are not the seren … more →

The Store.1 comment

slb wrote 1 year ago: Jesus works a series of doubles at the only checkout counter that’s ever open, the one where t … more →

Tags: Afterlife, Atrophy, Eternity, Jesus, Surveillance

Do Disturb.3 comments

slb wrote 1 year ago: Contrary to her family’s expectations, Nine had made herself at home in the sterile, freakish … more →

Tags: coma, Convalescence, DNR orders, hospital, pulling the plug

Retracing. 1 comment

slb wrote 1 year ago: Work backward. Think of the moment they married, between the 8 and 11 o’clock services at your … more →

Tags: jamaican culture, Marriage, patois, stepfathers

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slb wrote 1 year ago: Nine was born Ninah Jude Brown in a cold single-bed room at Sparrow Hospital. It was 1979 in Lansing … more →

Tags: single parents, unwed mothers, mother-daughter angst

Nine.3 comments

slb wrote 1 year ago: Nine had always found the house on Joshua Tree Court dystopian. The entire community, lined with imp … more →

Tags: Christianity, Divorce, Dystopia, Praying in tongues


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