Workshop Heretic

I've been effectively off social media for about a year, I think. I left for two reasons. One was my sanity, the other was because I got...

I was born in 1972 to parents who had both been at Kent State University during the 1970 shooting. At the time of the massacre, they were li...

Note: I first wrote this more than four years ago. Since then, I've been too afraid to publish it, partly because I thought it might inv...

Mrs. Heretic and I had plans for today, but after she watched the opening ceremonies yesterday of the 2024 Paris Olympics, she wanted to can...

Let’s start by acknowledging that writing literary fiction is a bad deal financially for almost everyone right now. It’s bad for privileged ...