Leah gave me a skull for Valentine’s Day. To be clear, Leah isn’t strange for giving it to me, and in fact, I don’t think I’m strange for wanting it. Earlier the skull caught my eye because I’m an English teacher and soon I’ll be teaching “Hamlet.” This is the play where Hamlet picks up …
Continue reading In Brief: Alas, Poor Yorick! (Valentine’s Present)
Last week The Drabble accepted a short story I wrote. You can read it here, though to be accurate I shouldn’t really say “short story.” The Drabble is a website that publishes works of prose and poetry 100 words or less—works of “flash fiction.” My piece was inspired by students who have recently been making …
Continue reading Publication: Edgar Allan Poe “Story” in “The Drabble”
In a previous post I mentioned that Greensboro was home of O. Henry. A hotel and a boulevard here are named after him, as well as countless schools across the states. The man is often said to be America’s best short story writer, and even if you don’t recognize the titles of his works, you …
April 2017: Leah and I moved to North Carolina, a completely new state for both of us. She’s from the Boston area, or actually Duxbury, MA, to be specific. To those of us not from Massachusetts, Duxbury and Boston might seem like similar places (they’re 45 minutes apart). But trust me, they’re pretty different. Or …
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