I’m actually looking forward to something outside of the regular day to day: Trips, and friends, and watching the world speed by from the windows of a train.

We’re still trying for this, right?

Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire teaches us that here is no safe world behind the flowers, no protection from the light of the sun, and only rarely beauty behind the flowing lines of poetry.

In which Justin X. M. Corriss reflects on that other great reason to write. Because it’s fun, right?

Number fourteen will shock you!

Sometimes growth is tearing something down, moving it around, finding a new path… Life’s your story. Write it however you wish.

Whatever she feels that makes her play the trumpet at night, I know I’ve felt it too.

Uncle David was nothing if not larger than life (and if you had ever seen him, you would understand just how significant a compliment this is).

Reflections on my first large, independent creative endeavor upon A Place I Have Never Been ascending to Goodreads!

My favorite selections from Justin Corriss’ @jxmc575 attempted daily haikus!