Category: Creative Non-Fiction
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Kindle Rejects Mermaid Novel: Too Few Mermaids
“Kindle KDP customer service, how can I help?” I say, “I’m having… this feels so absolutely ridiculous—” “I wasn’t on your previous ten calls.” “They took my young adult urban fantasy mermaid novel off of the young adult urban fantasy mermaid category. It’s an absurd situation, but I want to know why.” “Ah I see…
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Experimental Fiction Experiment
Dave King takes carpeted stairs into the basement of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts thinking of experimental fiction. A remnant of variegated clay chips hint that Donald Maass, John Vorhaus, Jo Eberhardt, Sean Walsh, and Mike Swift had been playing poker. An oversized Jack of clubs (big enough to be a placemat) and a…
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Saturday Mourning
When someone gets cremated, their bodies are burned with dozens of other dead people. Addie told me this three days after her grandmother died. “So that urn sitting on my parent’s mantelpiece in Alabama—the one holding my great aunt—that’s not just my great aunt?” I asked, scraping my fork across my plate to grab…