Sitting in Silence

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Mar 06, 2023
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Happy Woman’s History Month! A hearty welcome to you, premium subscribers. Feel free to peruse the extensive archive, which includes earlier posts only available to premium subscribers. You’ll find interesting stories, rare essays, and interviews with amazing writers.

A quick note: I’ll be teaching a prose book writing craft class today with discussion of the publishing industry. (March 5, 2023). Registration is open until just before the class starts.

Occasionally, I share in this premium subscriber space writing I produced for other venues. Today, I’m posting one of my published stories free for all premium subscribers. Last week, I posted a craft essay here on revision (see the February 28, 2023 post, “Revision is Your Friend”). In that post, I alluded to a story I wrote in grad school. Well, today I’m sharing the complete story with you. The story is called “You Can Run,” which was originally published in the literary magazine Arkansas International. The piece was solicited by my friend

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