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Continue reading →: This is Not a PoemMaybe my poems aren’t poems. Cities that brace themselves for impact. Each day one day away from total destruction. Maybe my words aren’t words. Globs of chewed gum that grip to the bottom of your sole and lodge themselves between your treads. I’m not a poet. It’s not a hat…
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Continue reading →: What it Felt Like Then and Other StoriesThere were things we wanted then that didn’t seem ridiculous. Coffee without the grinds. Ice water just before it turns cool leaving wet rings that soak into the wood. We didn’t need the bad with the good, the good was enough, it was plenty. Maybe it was naive to think…
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Continue reading →: The End of Everything is hard to abandonIf you’re looking for a hard-to-put-down read you’ve definitely found it, but the story—and the dark slimy layers underneath it—aren’t as easy to abandon as the book is when you’re through.
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Continue reading →: Up CurrentYou finally surface, smooth as salmon, like you always do. Breathing just under the finish and I think for a moment that I could touch you without getting wet. Hover my hand over the skin of water just breaking, those ripples whispers of something more than movement. — In the…
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Continue reading →: Sympathy Loophole and other writingsA quick recap for all my admiring fans. cough. I got more traffic on my last post about the publishing apocalypse than on anything else all year! I feel like this means I’m not a crazy person ranting to the wind. Rather, a crazy person ranting to the relative silence of the…
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Continue reading →: Super Sad True Love Story and the future of publishingWhat if readers gave up on Mr. Darcy before Elizabeth Bennett could fall in love with him? What if the unlikable Frodo had been sacrificed early and Merry and Pippin took the ring to Mount Doom? What if Harry and Hermoine got together at the beginning of the series? What…
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Continue reading →: The Difference is SimpleThere are poems that she never stops writing, filling page after page until her fingers numb and she has to tap them on the table to wake them. She has no shortage of revelations, in fact, starts awake in the night grasping for ink instead of light, her hair electric…
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Continue reading →: Getting Inside“The writing is sharp, flecked with details that catch your attention like a lure, just a few pages and you’re hooked.”
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Continue reading →: A Dance with Dragons, Peter Dinklage, and why Tyrion Lannister is the hero of this story“Some shitty critics have worried about Ned Stark being killed off and who will replace the “hero” of the series. You know nothing, Neil Genzlinger. Anyone with half a nose can smell out the star here and he’s no uppity martyr like Ned. Tyrion Lannister is the real hero of…
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Continue reading →: The Sweet Tooth“It’s amazing that you still haven’t read Anna Karenina. And you call yourself an English major.” “It’s not that I haven’t tried. There’s something about the title that sets me off Karenina… Kar-nin-nin-a. I want to pronounce it like an engine revving. Is that weird? Don’t answer that. Maybe it’s…
Hello,
I’m Lindsay
Mixed-Cree writer, cozy gamer, and book hoarder. Host of Book Me! Podcast. My debut children’s book Snow Day is coming out October 28, 2024 with Nimbus Publishing.
Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird 