A Ball is a Ball
Today in Minor Literature[s], a short piece of mine went up. Preview of “A Ball is a Ball” “When you feel it coming on, here’s what you do: imagine it as a ball. A football, or a tennis ball, whatever…
Divorced and in Love + Ham&Cheese
Literary Orphans published two of my short shorts in their beautiful October issue. Preview My sister got divorced and I worried. For a while, she considered marrying her horse. >> continue reading >>
Gender
In my dream, my husband is a woman. Not a beautiful woman with whom, despite my being straight, I can imagine myself in bed. He is a male-looking woman, resembling his reality male-self too much to attract me as someone…
The Realist
How short can a story be? My shortest piece so far, “The Realist”, is up in Boston Literary! Thank you for reading.
The Sound and The Fury
Today, I began reading The Sound and the Fury. Most Americans have read this novel in high school or college, but I can safely say most Dutch have not. Our education on English literature was extremely English, meaning: it focused on writing from Great Britain…
Atmospheric Personalities
They’ve named a hurricane after me, my husband says and he sounds proud. It was only a tropical storm this morning, he adds, but I’m sure it’s a hurricane now. We Google his atmospheric namesake and learn that tropical storm…