The Writer With A Cause

(beCause I must)

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  • Writing My First Novel in 90 Days

    I’ve spent the last five months writing one short story per week. 90-Day Novel Home Page After listening to Ray Bradbury’s keynote address at the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, I made a plan to write one short story every week for 52 weeks. 20 weeks in, I’m ready to add to my writing tasks….

  • The Great Deceleration

    Steph 1 Earth has lost hold of herself. Sun bleeds red around the contours of each river and valley and mountain and wheat field; all is suffused with this warning signal sent from our sun, and we have no collective answer to this alarm. I am twenty-nine, and according to new math I will not…

  • A note from an ordinary person

    Just as the river where I stepis not the same, and it,so I am as I am not. ——Heraclitus, “Fragments” 29 September 1904 I wonder at everything, and everything is a wonder to me. I do not know where this comes from, just that it lives within me and maybe emanates from me. I assume…

  • My White Rose Atop the Hill

    In order to fully appreciate the writing set before you, you must first be privy to the wry intellect of our narrator. She will often appear to be keenly naïve in the realm of reading people, but intrepid reader, I am here to inform you of the veil our narrator wears. This appearance of naivety…

  • Air Heads Bites, Tropical Skittles, and a Pocket Pistol

    Mandy Monroe walked down the same street every day at 4:15 p.m. She kept such a strict walking habit for two reasons: Mandy was on such a walk when a blue van passed her by on the main road to her left. The speed limit was only 25 MPH since they were in a school…

  • IntraGalactic PenPals: Your Fellow Earthling (Letter 2)

    21 Centurian #71,547,028 Earth by way of the Milky Way By way of the Solar System -10,000 years ENTER 31st Centurian #28 Earth by way of the Milky Way By way of the Solar System, Dear 31st Centurian #28: You make perfect sense, I received your letter on April 19th, 2026, and yes: “people watching.”…