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Continue reading →: Practicing a PageantRead time: 1 min. Only twelve more days Until the night arrives.The list has twice been checked, And ninety-nine more times to go.So many parents bringing wishes; Children dreamingInstead of learning lines.Mrs. Shepherd wants her little star in the lead, But dear Gabriel won’t listen to direction.I’ll have to ask…
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Continue reading →: Writing RetreatRead time: 1 min. You write by the beach. At least, you try to. The pen won’t move. Presumably you could speak the words, but no one stops to hear them, and that still wouldn’t make the pen move. Anyway, you’ve got no words to speak. You don’t even see…
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Continue reading →: Fragments from a FireRead time: 2 mins. I spent much of last week dealing with a brush fire a cousin started in our woods. The fire’s out now, the cousin has left, and we’re very lucky that only a comparatively small section of the woods burned. We’re also lucky that none of the…
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Continue reading →: Escapism Part 3Read time: 3 mins. Continued from my previous post. Jason’s eyes went back and forth between the door and the globe. A grin spread across his cheeks. “Wait, did I just open the door with the globe?” Isabelle said “If you did Nasrin just left and closed it back on…
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Continue reading →: Escapism Part 2Read time: 3 mins. Continued from my previous post. Nasrin snapped her fingers. “Come on, there’s no one else here so we can go straight in. Our scenario is that we’re locked in a mansion’s secret cellar and have to open the hidden door.” She led them into a room…
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Continue reading →: Escapism Part 1Read time: 3 mins. This is a throwback to my first attempt at running a serialized fiction blog in 2018. Much of what I wrote during that period I’ve now synthesized into a draft of a novel. This story, while one of my favorites, really had no place in the…
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Continue reading →: “Serenading a Siren” – My Story Published in January Ember Press’ Not a Phase AnthologyRead time: 2 mins. I am thrilled to announce my short story, “Serenading a Siren,” was just published in Not a Phase: An Ace Anthology from January Ember Press. Published just in time for Asexual (Ace) Awareness Week, the anthology features both fiction and non-fiction stories of characters on the…
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Continue reading →: Shoreline LiminalityRead time: 1 min. Consider the in-between places where the sea meets the land. Sometimes that’s an abrupt concrete wall enforcing artificial separation, other times it’s an inclining sand strip that lets the ocean choose her own naturally changing boundaries. Maybe it’s a rock mound that grants the water fluidity…
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Continue reading →: Hymn for AbraxasRead time: 1 min. To create as one speaks, to speak the poem into life, and of that poem make a prism for use as eyeglass lenses. The void becomes a rainbow, then. Select a painted photon for a brush. Draw with it the puzzle pieces across the page the…
Hello,
I’m David
I’m a full time Instructional Systems Designer and a free time Creative Writer. I hold a PhD in instructional design and development, an MA in writing, and a BA in writing and theology. My current creative focus is on honoring nature and our connection to our environment. My pronouns are he/they.
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