Category: Creative Writing
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Flash Fiction: Blue Plums
They had all told him the same curious story. Though the men were seen heading inland each night, no one had ever seen them heading back out toward the coast.
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Flash Fiction: Zashiki Warashi
So, who are you? Well? Do you hear me talking to you? Won’t you say something? Why are you in my house?
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How I Met Tapputi
“Could I really write about a 3200 year old woman, of which we know so very little?”
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Novel: The Queen’s Apothecary
And in his Science as he did Excell,In her high Favour he did always dwell… December of 1602, London, England. A grieving and feeble Queen Elizabeth I has decided to retire her court to Richmond Palace, a move that will require her royal apothecary, Hugh Morgan, and his staff to perform the expected scenting of…
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Novel: The Perfumer of Ashur
When a heartbroken but headstrong temple assistant in the 13th century BC Mesopotamian land of Ashur is befriended by the king and promoted to the palace perfumery, her intoxicating creations will change her future. But now with the king going mad, her closest friend in danger, and her competitor’s jealousy threatening to derail her innovations,…
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Novel: The English Teacher
BOOK 1: JAPAN When a chance discussion introduces the idea of teaching English in Japan, the gregarious yet still single Mitchell Taylor decides the time is right to shake his depression, find direction, and venture out into the world. But as a queer, Jewish American twenty-something who has never taught English or been to Japan,…
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Writing on the Edge: The Power of No – Buddhist Mindfulness and the Teaching of Composition
“Aware of the suffering created by fanaticism and intolerance, we are determined not to be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology. (Hanh 23)”
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Blinded by Beleaf
Image by Grant Osborne Osaka, Japan – A trip to the Body Shop proved near fatal for one American man on Tuesday when a bottle of their “Beleaf”fragrance sprayed sideways into the right eye of Marlen Harrison, an American who claims to be a university professor. Harrison, a self-described fragrance addict whose sole purpose for…