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Output from a writing group, based on one picture taken a long time ago. Stefanos looked at his watch, then again to make sure he saw it right the first time, then cursed under his breath and walked faster. The sun glared at him, making his shirt stick to his shoulders and back. Without looking he knew that the fabric would be visibly staining. It was unlikely he would have time to straighten his appearance in a chilled bathroom at his destination in the steel tower he could

Is it fiction when you recount something you've actually thought about but that has never happened? I've probably spent more time reading about meditation, its techniques, its benefits, and its practice than I've actually spent meditating. I know from this research that meditation can be active, like walking and focusing on your feet moving one in front of the other. It can be done to music, or guided by an Xanax-voiced narrator. You can try to think about nothing - quite har

This is the output of a BCA completed a few years ago...part of a winning proposal, I should add. BCAs, especially when they are tailored...

Lucca We push and mold and shape our loneliness into many different forms. I fear what I might bring into this world were I to be left...

An occasionally fictional piece written for Redbud Writing Project's Braided Prose Class (8-2023) The road that brings you to Ely is a...

[This was written for a Gotham Writer's Workshop.] The Gotham assignment for reviews makes some assumptions that don’t align with the...

Baton Rouge is one of those places that changes, but not really. When Stephanie Gregory Clifford lived there in the 1990s Louisiana’s...

A reasonable person – but wait, who is reasonable at 17? Let’s start over. If you step over a comatose-drunk teenager sprawled on a front...

The first and only year that I attended Appalachian State University the school cancelled classes for four days because of bad weather,...

Margaret (not her real name) drives about 20 minutes each way to get to the little cookie shop where she works. The shop is located on...

From a prompt conducted with the Gotham Writer's Workshop. The J had just pulled away from Bowery a few minutes before. The lights in the...

From a prompt session conducted with the Gotham Writer's Workshop. Fluorescent lighting wasn’t designed by anyone that cared very much...

Tableau Storyboard discussing how traffic volumes and crashes are and aren't related; what factors contribute. (Note: clicking on image...

A Tableau interactive chart showing historical and current (2022) positions of Americans based on Gallup surveys. Click on the image to...

An excerpt from Greece where I stayed in Athens and the sticks on a work-for-lodging deal at a luxury resort in the Peloponnese Region....

An entry to Writer's Digest (edited). Who was that gateway drug to adulthood for you? I had assumed that the subject of the painting...

This was the original version of a response to a set of proposals that Duke Energy had issued for dealing with climate change and...

Complete federal grant (BUILD)

This is an excerpt of a travel diary - very interesting trip. Much more is available on the people I got to know; small, ring-tailed...