Sage Harris has mastered the art of avoidance—until a midnight gas station run where she meets a boy on a motorcycle who forces her to look straight at what she’s been running from. But this isn’t a meet-cute romance, it’s a reckoning.
Old Man Winter has arrived to my part of the world, albeit with a windy grunt and a soggy grumble. Traditionally winter brings a sense of sleepiness and isolation, with only the embers of hope for Spring’s far-off arrival keeping us warm. However, I think we should approach winter as a season of reflection, not…
Let’s start with the definition of to romanticize, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “to make romantic : treat as idealized or heroic.” I would argue that authors of fictional novels and stories are almost obligated to be natural-born romantics. What is a novel if not an idealized telling of scenarios coming from real life. Your…
Many of us have read at least one or two science fiction classics where humans co-exist with robots. One of those is Cal from Isaac Asmiov’s collection of robot short stories. It follows the tale of a robot, “Cal”, who is programmed by his author master to write crime novels after he expressed a supposed…
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