Award Winning Writer, Educator, and Pushcart Prize Nominee. Monday, April 21, 2014. You Might Curse Before You Bless. Next Monday, they will answer these questions on THEIR websites or blogs, and each nominate two other authors.

Thank You for Ten Years of NANO Fiction. 2016 NANO Prize Results! July 22, 2016. Five Questions With Reem Abu-Baker. I Am A Monster Again. When my heart is a real thing you wear like a ring I say MY HEART IS A TOOL OF DEMOLITION. Gunshot Fractures of Both Orbits.

A System of Linear Equations. Sex For the Recently Divorced. Love Letter to You at 85. My roommate is from the plane he walked off. The Tocai Fruiliano Is At 54 Degrees. A Pair of Days in April.

A Place for Art and Its Reasons. In the vein of Georg Hegel Hinge Trio. Reminiscent of Wu-Tang in its heyday, each voice is distinctly its own while melding into one another giving the work a harmony only achieved with some pre-meditation.

Great Conversations, Greater Wasps. The Breath before Birds Fly. The Sum of Two Mothers. You Might Curse Before You Bless. Everything We Create Smells Like the Earth. Opening the Doors of the Temple. Every Word Was Once Drunk.

Yes, I am a Californian, and I voted for Bernie in the primary. I, who in the past considered not voting because after all, does it really make a difference? I, who never before in my adult life gave to a political campaign, never even considered myself political or believed in the integrity of a candidate, gave to, and believed in, Bernie Sanders and his campaign.