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Yoga and Creativity (Part 2)

If your one-legged pigeon is a little wonky, that’s fine as long as you’re not hurting yourself and it feels good.

Yoga and Creativity

Having those moments allows the clutter in my brain to clear and make room for more productive and creative things.

This is a short story I wrote for Neil Gaiman’s MasterClass: The Art of Storytelling. I liked it a lot, so I wanted to share it here! This is my first short story I’ve posted here, so I hope you like it. It was the First of November—the night of the burning—and Nan knew thatContinue reading “November Song”

Book Review: A Discovery of Witches

Disclaimer: I don’t write these fancy long book reviews for books that I didn’t love or had a big impact on me, but this book did have an impact on me. This book was the pinnacle of untapped potential. It had a great premise, but so much was left untouched. Anyway, I’ll get to thatContinue reading “Book Review: A Discovery of Witches”

“It’s coming along”

Or How to Tell Your Family You’re No Father Along with Your Book than the Last Time They Asked

Book Review: The Changeling

To believe in only the practical, the rational, the realistic was a kind of glamour as well. But he couldn’t enjoy the illusion of order anymore. Monsters aren’t real until you meet one. When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, he left his son a box of books and strange recurring dreams. Now Apollo is a fatherContinue reading “Book Review: The Changeling”

2018: A Year.

It’s easy to get caught up in all the things one wanted to do in the space of 12 months, but it’s important to instead focus on one’s accomplishments (big or small).

A Tale for a Winter’s Night

Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories…

Festive Fun

When in doubt, make it one line. If you know me personally (maybe even if you don’t), you know I get excited about Christmas as soon as the clock strikes midnight on Halloween. Then it’s yuletide festivities galore! I listen to Christmas music, I pull out a few Christmas decorations, I dream of a whiteContinue reading “Festive Fun”

Book Review: The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Reality never changes. Only our recollections of it do. Whenever a moment passes, we pass along with it into the realm of memory. And in that realm, geometries change. Contours shift, shades lighten, objectivities dissolve. Memory becomes what we need it to be. When neurosurgeon Jake Breaker operates, he knows he’s handling more than aContinue reading “Book Review: The Saturday Night Ghost Club”