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notes on the 3 sentence confession mixtape
How often do we really know why we do something? And once we (if we) decide we know, how does that knowledge stay relevant or meaningful as anything besides a kind of referent for future situations? I feel like “where” and “when” are more meaningful questions than why. Why seems closed and finite: “I did [...]
6 p.m., Cerro Fortin
Editor’s note: “6 p.m., Cerro Fortin” is one of the two winning stories in the Faulkner Mixtape Writing Contest. The challenge was to write a nonfiction story using two different narrators. Author’s Note: The scene: 6 p.m., a hiking trail in Mexico. 1st narrator: Mexican police officer. 2nd narrator: Sarah 6 p.m., Cerro Fortin Estábamos [...]
hint fiction anthology cover
I found out today that Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (WW Norton), is now available for pre-order at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The cover art isn’t up on those sites yet, but you can see below: For more information about hint fiction, please check Robert Swartwood’s blog. And [...]
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esta chacra no existe mas
[notes] 1. the charcra or pictured here has been farmed by the same family, Los Colque for 40 years. 2. the land was owned by someone who lived behind the chacra and was described to me as ‘un hombre humilde’ [a humble man], basically a gaucho, who let the Colques work it and make a [...]
timeline of thoughts while editing and looking for a photo to go with Robert Hirschfield’s ‘Notes on a Woman in Calcutta’ and corresponding with him via Gmai
please reference story here: Notes on a Woman in Calcutta 10:42 a.m – robert wrote [via gmail] ‘ Re-reading my new story, I feel this is the kind of writing I should have been doing my whole life. As I always say, I am thankful for our chance encounter last year.’ 11:44 – david wrote [...]
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excerpt from twitter novel
[excerpt of novel i wrote as series of spontaneous posts at twitter over several months in 2009.] New project yesterday: a small drywall patch in a house over in Tangletown. I think the homeowners were Jewish. There was a plastic bowl on the front porch–must’ve been a water bowl for a cat–that had a Star [...]
Gmail excerpt from Brian Dennison
[Note: the following is an excerpt from an unedited (except for typo fixes) email from my friend Brian Dennison. I've known Brian since middle school. We both grew up in Marietta, Georgia and later lived together in Athens when we were students at UGA. We listened to and talked about a lot of music. Brian [...]
commodified thinking
So many people seem to look at things almost exclusively in the context of their perceived value as commodity or resource. For example, they’ll say things like “Siesta Key is considered one of the 5 most beautiful beaches in the US.” This is something my mom has said often. She doesn’t say “I love Siesta [...]
transparent narrative writing contest at matador