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Excelsior!
So, 2020 ā¦ a great year all around, amirite? Muse: Go sit down. Yeah, it was a rough year for a lot of reasons. But since my better half is always (rightly) encouraging me to be more positive and not such a pessimist, I thought Iād pick out something positive, so here it is: I…
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Why Sometimes a Character Must Die
Death is waiting for everyone. Each one of us will some day experience dying, whether after aging, through sickness, or suddenly. There is an inescapable inevitability to death and many choose to live their lives ignoring the end as much as they can, as though it will somehow prolong life if they succeed. I recently…
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2020 publications
Here is my year in review for 2020 stories and poems. I don’t usually make a big effort trying to garner interest in nominating things for awards, though I probably should. But mostly I want everyone to have a chance to give these stories and poems a r…
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"The Bridge Fugue: Variations on Emptiness" published in Daily Science Fiction
Photo by Valentin Balan on UnsplashMy story “The Bridge Fugue: Variations on Emptiness” is out in today’s DSF.I wrote this last January (before anyone around here started talking about lockdowns….). Some of the comments I got from othe…
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Gradeless AP Literature: Standards-Focused Assessment
A few months ago, I wrote about teaching my AP Literature class sans grades (at least as much as possible). De-Grading the AP Lit Classroom One of the main benefits has been a refocusing on the actual standards that the students need to master over the course of the year. My school does standards-based grading…
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Postcard from Brighton
We appear to be living in limbo. Everyone looks like Batman’s nemesis Bane (the masks), and what used to be my friends are now walking contagions I have to keep 6ft away from (still my friends though). Holidays cancelled… music festivals unlikely… …
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