The Thinking Silence
Writing that resists premature clarity and stays with what is not yet resolved.
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A Man Named Yeshua (opens the original)
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Certainty Is a Poor Measure of Truth (opens the original)
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The Guests at Blackburn Hall (opens the original)
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This story was written for Bradley Ramsey’s Aperitif Prompt, the pre-event bonus for Scriptorum’s Second Indulgence challenge.The invitation is simple: Lord Devereaux is holding a masquerade ball. We must decide where, bring a guest, introduce the house and some of its company before the feast begins.</em
The Body I Was Given (opens the original)
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This essay began with Laura B’s piece about her relationship with her body, itself inspired by A Writer’s Voice and The In Between writing in celebration of bodies.I read it and found myself thinking about my own body, although not quite in terms of celebration. Mine has spent a lifetime being unreliable, sometimes painfully so, and yet it is also the body in which I have done everything I have ever done.That seemed worth writing from the inside.Because what follows
Writers Worth Finding (opens the original)
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