Root Cause: A Collection of Stories on Community

A man helps his cousin’s wife escape her abusive marriage, a lonely cosmic entity finds kinship in space-faring humans, and a vigilante hunts down a target who might just be on the right side of history…

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Building Your Professional Development Plan as a Writer

Do you ever get that feeling like every other writer has it all figured out? Like they have writing retreats, clever spreadsheets, a five-year plan pinned to their wall… and you’re over here celebrating because you finally renamed a Google Doc to something you’ll actually be able to find the…

Contemporary Monsters as Metaphor

In part one of this series (Historical Monsters as Metaphor), we looked at the early myths of monsters and how they served as metaphors for the era’s time where anxieties and fears of the unknown felt otherwise impossible to articulate.. Today, monsters continue to thrive, but their forms have shifted.…

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