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Fiction/Poetry
- Fool’s Gold 12.19.23
- Excerpt: Blackfire Rising 11.02.23
- Flashback to Dreadmire 10.24.23
- Weathergirl 9.14.23
- Silent 8.27.23
- To Protect and Serve 07.21.23
- Infinity, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 5.19.23 and 5.21.23
- Good Samaritan 4.11.23
- Help Me 2.14.23
- Draft: Perchance to Dream 2.8.23
- River Bluff Review: Tiny Monsters 2.3.23
- In Memoriam 1.26.23
- Never Leave 1.11.23
- Poem: Seasons 12.23.22
- Poem: River’s End 11.28.22
- Not 10.5.22
- Shiny People 9.9.22
- Springheel Jack 8.25.22
- Sisyphus reading at Spine Books 4.20.22
- Poem: Come to the Bridge 2.23.22
- Grow Old With Me 2.18.22
- Snippets 1.28.22
- Fever 12.15.21
- Poem: The Dance 11.19.21
- Sanctuary prologue 10.27.21
- Sanctuary: Gauntlet 9.18.21
- Poem: Dear Angelfish 8.29.21
- Memoir 8.13.21
- The River 8.2.21
- The Cold Ones: Aswang 7.23.21
- Tanglewilde excerpt 7.16.21
- Deep Breathing 6.18.21
- A Matter of Honor 5.24.21
- Poem: A Single Tear 5.4.21
- Sergeant Curious 2.26.21
- The Mimi Zanger Award 2.15.21
- The Artist 2.1.21
- Excerpt: Banshee’s Run 12.4.20
- Dark and Stormy Night 10.8.20
- Grow Old With Me 9.23.20
- Yanaguana and the five senses 9.11.20
- Zippo 9.4.20
- First Draft: Fever 4.8.20
- Yellow Roses: Prologue 6.29.19
- Dear Katrina 10.3.18
- Dead Heat 6.30.18
- Sisyphus 6.15.18
Photography/Travel
- Fly like an eagle 1.19.24
- Car gods, villains and barbecue 11.13.23
- Leaving Lost Wages 10.3.23
- Lost Wages: Day 4 10.1.23
- Lost Wages: Day 3 9.30.23
- Lost Wages: Day 2 9.29.23
- Lost Wages: Day 1 9.28.23
- Dragoncon: Denouement 9.5.23
- Dragoncon: The roar of unbridled avarice 9.4.23
- Dragoncon: Hi Barbie! 9.3.23
- Dragoncon: A roomful of readers 9.2.23
- Dragoncon: 100,000 of your closest friends 9.1.23
- Dragoncon: Everybody walk the dinosaur 8.30.23
- Paris Je T’aime: Notre Dame 7.26.23
- Paris Je T’aime: Day 7, always moving forward 6.14.23
- Paris Je T’aime: Day 6, dreaming beauty in pictures 6.13.23
- Paris Je T’aime: Day 5, “I specifically said Box 5 was to be kept open” 6.12.23
- Paris Je T’aime: Day 4, of bravery and beauty and books 6.11.23
- Paris Je T’aime: Day 3, the farmer’s market 6.10.23
- Paris Je T’aime: Day 2, or adventures in ordering 6.10.23
- Paris Je T’aime: Day 1.5, sipping champagne at Notre Dame 6.9.23
- Paris Je T’aime: Day 1.0 6.8.23
- Seattle photodump! 3.15.23
- AWP 2023: Klondike Gold Rush 3.9.23
- AWP 2023: The Emerald City, Pt. 2 3.9.23
- AWP 2023: The Emerald City, Pt. 1 3.9.23
- AWP 2023: So many evergreens 3.7.23
- Grounded 2.23.23
- Washington: MLK Memorial 1.16.23
- Edgar 11.11.22
- Ms. Donald Goes to Washington Pt. 3 10.30.22
- Ms. Donald Goes to Washington Pt. 2 10.28.22
- Ms. Donald Goes to Washington Pt. 1 10.27.22
- Fright Fest 2022 10.23.22
- Tennessee Bungee Tour: The Opryland Hotel 4.6.22
- Painting a dream: Vincent Van Gogh 10.21.21
- Happy Independence Day! 7.4.21
- Our Town: Edwardsville, Ill. 6.11.21
- Memorial Day: Nashville National Cemetery 5.31.21
- The Masked Mouse: Last Call 5.17.21
- The Masked Mouse: Animal House 5.16.21
- The Unmasked Mouse: “Rest” Day 5.15.21
- The Masked Mouse: A Galaxy Far, Far Away 5.14.21
- The Masked Mouse: Eating Around the World 5.13.21
- The Masked Mouse: Disney On Wheels 5.12.21
- The Masked Mouse: Arrival Day 5.11.21
- The Masked Mouse: Preshow 5.10.21
- The St. Louis Art Museum 2.26.21
- San Antonio: The Riverwalk 7.20.20
- San Antonio: The Market 6.18.20
- Fireworks 5.20.20
- The Cheshire Inn 2.29.20
- A walk among the orchids 2.7.20
- History on Tap: The Schott Brewery 10.28.19
- La Gloria and Five Hours at the Airport 9.27.19
- Eclipse fever 8.23.19
- Sunflower maze 8.21.19
- Life in Highland, Illinois 8.8.19
- Baltimore: The National Aquarium 7.25.19
- The Spindler Building: If Walls Could Talk 6.11.19
- Kansas City: The Sauer Castle 5.17.19
- East St. Louis 4.30.19
- Holy Orders: The Ordination of Shane Spellmeyer 3.28.19
- Oklahoma City Memoriam 3.15.19
- Rooftops of Kansas City 1.22.19
- Those college kids these days 12.3.18
- Baltimore: The Inner Harbor 11.17.18
- The Newspaper 9.22.18
- Chinese Festival at MoBot 8.17.18
- Yosemite 7.14.18
- Prospero’s, the magic portal 7.6.18
- Double rainbow 6.22.18
- Garden of glass 6.15.18
MFA/wordcraft
- Those writer’s resolutions… 1.2.24
- The White Star Line wineglass 12.23.23
- AWP and the starving writer 12.16.23
- BookWorld: A tough gig for writers 10.20.23
- ‘Be water’: Neil Gaiman on comics, craft and a cup of tea 5.12.23
- MFA reading list 4.27.23
- Ten tips for AWP 3.16.23
- AWP 2023: That’s a wrap 3.15.23
- AWP 2023: Attack of the inkstained wretches 3.11.23
- AWP 2023: Hey, there’s a convention here 3.10.23
- Quote unquote: Ray Bradbury 3.7.23
- The falling chandelier 2.1.23
- Reflection: Writer in the World 1.23.23
- Quote unquote: C.S. Lewis 1.18.23
- 171 pages 12.31.22
- One more in the books 12.21.22
- Art for art’s sake 10.12.22
- Last MFA standing 9.28.22
- Writer in the world 8.31.22
- Farewell, Sword of Damocles 8.17.22
- Fall into terror! It’s… August. 8.10.22
- Follow me, scribes 6.16.22
- So where do you get your ideas? 6.14.22
- Toni Morrison: The Measure of Our Lives 4.29.22
- Catching figs 4.27.22
- King Lear, identity chameleons and Andy 4.1.22
- Another slingshot around the sun 3.20.22
- Inversion: A close look at the opening of Sula 2.17.22
- Embracing the werewolf 2.12.22
- In which I talk in symbols 2.9.22
- But why does it always have to be political? 1.26.22
- Imagining madness 1.14.22
- Body horror in MFA Land 11.10.21
- Writing the adventure 11.3.21
- What the fractal 9.10.21
- Freedom for women, sexual and otherwise 9.8.21
- Not exercise 9.3.21
- Nasty Women 8.27.21
- Revisions and portfolios and poems, oh my 4.26.21
- Experiment: Cento poetry 3.24.21
- AWP: Sunday 3.8.21
- AWP: Saturday 3.7.21
- AWP: Friday 3.6.21
- AWP: Wednesday and Thursday 3.4.21
- AWP Blog: And we’re off! 3.3.21
- Me am poet. You poem too? 2.22.21
- My own half-blood prince 2.8.21
- Writer’s resolutions 12.31.20
- Finish line! 12.18.20
- Elizabeth’s Rules* for Nanowrimo 11.6.20
- Dark and stormy 10.8.20
- Zippo 9.4.20
- And heeeere weeeee go 8.21.20
- Writerversary 6.10.20
- What I’m going to be when I grow up 4.6.20
- The end is nigh 3.24.20
- Sausagemaking: an incomplete WIP 1.22.20
- Stories We Tell After Midnight 9.27.19
- Semester… over… 12.18.18
- Battles royale 10.16.18
- Paradigm shifts 8.31.18
- First class 8.24.18
Essays
- Free to wear pink 8.24.26
- The whispering woods 7.28.23
- Wearing the pants in my own damn life, or the IDGAF Jeans 6.26.23
- Under the orange tree 11.2.22
- The original guilty pleasure 12.26.22
- The Joker cans Batgirl 8.3.22
- The beauty halo 6.24.22
- So, where are you from? 6.10.22
- The coffeehouse chairs 5.23.22
- A second life 12.8.21
- How to survive a horror movie: 2021 edition 10.30.21
- Waving my cane: Disability and grad school 10.21.21
- The Amazing Adventures of Michael Chabon 4.19.21
- Miracle Girl 3.16.21
- Hidden Joy 1.13.21
- How to survive a horror movie: 2020 edition 10.31.20
- Pay for it. That’s how people live. 7.31.20
- Unexpected gifts 4.20.20
- Me vs. the Mouse 1.28.20
- Learning to fly 1.8.20
- Castles and rocketships 9.20.19
- House of memories 8.16.19
- Dear Subway 2.23.19
- What do you like to read? 2.12.19
- The Beast vs. Brad Admire 11.26.18
- How to survive a horror movie: 2018 edition 10.31.18
- The madness of the king 9.21.18
- First rough draft of history 8.4.18
- Annapolis 7.13.18
Freelancing/Journalism
- The snake rule, or words we keep in newsrooms for no good reason 1.23.24
- Archival evidence 8.17.23
- Person of the Year, and who it should have been 12.8.23
- Freedom Day 2022 7.28.22
- Journalism in fiction… again 1.19.22
- In which I step up on one of my favorite soapboxes 12.28.21
- Freedom Day 2021 7.28.21
- Show Your Work: The 2021 Awards 6.25.21
- Freedom Day 2020 7.28.20
- Stringbook 8.5.20
- On assignment: The quad preacher 12.11.19
- Pilgrimage 11.29.19
- On assignment: Planned Parenthood 10.12.19
- Full circle 5.30.19
- Freelance folderol, pt. 1 8.12.18
- Goodbyes 7.26.18
- Last week 7.23.18
- 双耳开放 6.22.18
- ‘Life after news’ 6.15.18
Reviews
- Book: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store 1.30.24
- Film: Wonka and the taste of nostalgia 1.16.24
- Books: Falling by TJ Newman 1.8.24
- Book roundup of 2023
- Movie roundup of 2023
- Film: Ballad of Songbirds and Marvels 12.13.23
- Film: The Big Iguana vs. the jerks behind us 12.5.23
- Film: Exorcist Believer 11.16.23
- The books that scare me 10.12.23
- Film: A Haunting in Venice 9.18.23
- Books: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 8.2.23
- Everything wrong with The Flash and comics movies 7.19.23
- Books: A Piece of the World 5.4.23
- Books of 2022 1.1.23
- Movie: Firestarter 5.14.22
- Book: A Day Like This 5.2.22
- Movie: Scream (again) 1.21.22
- Book: The Fan 1.12.22
- Book: Billy Summers 1.7.22
- 2021 Book Roundup 1.5.22
- Movie: Love Story, or 90 Minutes of My Life I’m Never Getting Back 8.11.21
- Movies: The Green Knight Takes a Jungle Cruise 8.6.21
- Movies: Old 7.30.21
- Book: The Alice Network 7.21.21
- Movie: Black Widow, finally 7.14.21
- Movie: Luca 6.30.21
- Movie: Hid From Our Eyes 6.23.21
- Movie: In the Heights 6.16.21
- Movie: The Conjuring: Devil’s Food 6.9.21
- Movie: A Quiet Place Pt. 2 6.2.21
- Books: Review roundup 6.1.21
- Movie: Confessions of a Godzilla Widow 4.14.21
- Book: The Fireman 3.18.21
- Book: Pat Conroy 1.25.21
- Book: The Writing Life 1.18.21
Miscellaneous
- BookNotes: Nevermore 2.5.24
- Show Your Work: Zappa to me 2.2.24
- Rest in peace, Jim Burns 12.4.23
- Runner-up! 07.16.23
- Con report: ConCarolinas 2023 6.4.23
- Traveling woman 5.30.23
- Banned Books roundtable (video) 4.3.23
- River Bluff Review reading (video) 4.19.23
- SL reading set 4.13.23
- Con report: Conflation returns 3.2.23
- Imaginarium is a wrap! 7.12.22
- Virtual Con Report: Conflation 2022 2.27.22
- Wheels 9.24.21
- And the award goes to… 2.15.21
- The final Door Poetry collection 11.15.20
- The Blackfire crew rides again! 10.16.20
- Untitled experiment 5.15.20
- Elizabeth vs. the Voldevirus 9.28.20
- Historical artifacts 8.18.20
- I don’t know if it’s art but I know what I like 7.11.19
- Door Poetry, Week 15ish 4.28.19
- Door Poetry, Week 13 (I think) 4.12.19
- Greetings from Warrensburg 4.5.19
- Door Poetry Week… 11? 3.29.19
- Door Poetry: Spring Break Edition 3.22.19
- Door Poetry: Week 7 3.5.19
- Door Poetry: Week 6 2.27.19
- Door Poetry: Week 5 2.19.19
- Door Poetry: Week 4 2.11.19
- Door Poetry: Week 3 2.6.19
- Door Poetry: Week 2 1.25.19
- Door Poetry: Week 1 1.18.19
- A poetical experiment 1.14.19