Today I overheard a little girl ask her family: “Can we stop talking about me already?” I hear ya, sister. Sometimes enough is enough and you want to focus on someone else for a change. So in honor of that cranky little girl, here’s some news from other writers: If you’re an anxious traveler and [...]

Usually, this Shared Stories section includes a link to a piece of short fiction you can read online. I’m mixing it up this time with a New Yorker podcast of James Salter’s “Last Night,” read by Thomas McGuane. I recently posted about the challenges of reading my work aloud and editing pieces in preparation for [...]

Here’s a creepy one for your weekend: “Sweetness” by Donna D. Vitucci, which appears in Storyglossia. It’s about a minister who is a little too enthusiastic about his youngest parishioners. I have a creepy-male-protagonist story, too — “The Ballad Solemn of Lady Malena.” It’s about a man who develops a rather, shall we say, unhealthy [...]

When I stumbled on “The Art of Fiction” by Lindsey Crittenden in The Bellingham Review, I decided to make it a “Shared Story” even if that does give this category a writing theme so far (see “How to Tell a Story”). This story is written in second person — a POV I seem to be [...]