join us in borneo
writers who want to hone your chops for writing about and for the world, the Abroad Writers’ Conference is having a session in Sarawak, North Borneo, in June, in which anthropologist Gerrell Drawhorn, a veteran investigator of Borneo’s incredible biocultural diversity, and I will be taking you out into the rainforest and to meet the …Read More
powerful flash fiction by Mary Pauer
Mary was one of the eleven “participants” at the Abroad Writer’s Conference in Hever Castle, Kent, where I did a week of lectures and workshops along with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Robert Olen Butler and Paul Harding. It was a really interesting experience. Each of the participants had literary chops and their own distinctive voice but …Read More
some pointilliste fiction
I have been corresponding with Elaine Rosenberg Miller, a very attractive woman in Palm Beach who is one of my new Facebook friends. Elle, as she likes to be called, is a writer, and she directed me to something she wrote called “Fishing in the Intercoastal,” which is on the Internet. It’s only a page, …Read More
#70 : The Silent Lion
By Elaine Rosenberg Miller
I first met Max Krauser the day our family moved into our new home in
Teaneck, New Jersey, a leafy suburb six miles north of New York City.
My parents had bought a large house at the top of a hill on a street named
Ogden Avenue.
It was mid-winter break between college semesters. I was …Read More