J S LANE COMPANYLLC 

[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...

What's a lie, and what to do about it? The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy suggests that there must be four things present to make a...

A derisive comment you don't hear much any more is that "she's a real watchmaker," meaning that the she in question focuses on creating...