Every story is a ghost story. No, not every story is about the disembodied soul of a deceased relative who discovers agoraphobia in the afterlife and won’t leave the house. But every story is about a ghost, nevertheless, and about our relationship to ghosts, and the extent to which we are ghosts ourselves.
Category: Fiction
Going Through The Bad Books
I believe that there are certain phases we all go through in the writing life. We all start by imitating the things we love – the books, the movies, whatever – and that goes on for a long, long time, until we get impatient with ourselves and decide that we need to start learning this…
And It’s Wrong.
We live in a broken world. We always have. There has never been a time in human history when things just fell seamlessly into place, when everybody got along, when things were as they appeared. The victories have always been partial, the glories always dependent on where you were standing at the time. Life is…