Prick of the Spindle

Prick of the Spindle is a brand new online literary journal featuring poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, and literary reviews.  It’s off to a good start with solid pieces and a simple yet creative layout.  I’m thinking about submitting some of my work to them.  Here are some brief snippets of what Prick of the [...]

Hypnosis and Phobia — A True Story

Mom Writers Literary Magazine features writing by mothers about motherhood.  Hypnosis Triumph by Diana M. Raab is the true story of a daughter’s medical phobia and the attempts to cure it through hypnosis.  Following is an excerpt: “While standing in line to pay, Anna whispered, ‘Mom, I feel faint.’ She was not a huge fan of [...]

The Unexpected; or See Bob Run

“Vaulting” –  a recent “Bob the Angry Flower” comic by Stephen Notley — is a riot.  I >think< it’s supposed to suggest the arrogant foreign policy of the United States…and it’s a pretty clever stab at that… but to me, it’s really a study in the art of surprise…if not the surprise of art. I can’t [...]

Sound and Writing

Sound and Writing A lot of writers I know like to listen to music when they write.  I often don’t — I’m usually able to get so immersed in the oceanic headspace of the writing that listening to a song would only distract me.  But sometimes the ambient noise of a room or the alarms [...]

???

See that terrible title?  It’s “???” — which is technically pronounced “uh-huh-wha?” — and you might be thinking that my first guest blog entry at “A Bunch of Wordz” is titled that way because I’m lazy and don’t know what I’m going to write about, like so many other bloggers.  And that may be true.  [...]

Daddy

Good literary nonfiction is difficult to find.  I discovered this while searching through large quantities of non-relevant links and , I’m sad to say, either uninteresting stories or interesting stories told in an uninteresting way–which is pretty much the opposite of what creative nonfiction should be.  Until I found it, the needle in the haystack, the shining [...]

Hey, Look

The New Yorker is one of the most highly respected and well-known journals published in the United States, having been around since 1925.  This month’s issue includes the following piece by Simon Rich in the Humor section.  It starts with the words, “What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was Eleven” and goes [...]

candy cigarettes

I love poetry, and I love getting a glimpse into people’s lives through nonfiction sources, such as essays or blogs, but I never knew you could combine the two until recently when I discovered the writing form known as creative nonfiction.  It’s hard to explain, but easy to get once you see it in action.  Here is [...]