[nineteeneighties]

Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald in a record shop during a break while filming The Breakfast Club, 1984

[monkfishjowls]

I’ve noticed sometimes writers at readings will read things that are incomprehensible as spoken word. Sometimes they inflect their sentences like poets because their words are so far removed from what they would actually say. This writing always breaks Padgett Powell’s rule, “Write as if you were...

[monkfishjowls]

"Not so long ago, it was acceptable to be an amateur poet or essayist. Nowadays if one does not make some money (however pitifully little) out of writing, it’s considered to be a waste of time. It’s taken as downright shameful for a man past twenty to indulge in versification unless he receives a...

[dayleg]

[ahhleeseeya]

JOHN GREEN MY FAVORITE PERSON EVER

[noelsmithofficial-blog]

A Decade Past by Noel Smith

[noelsmithofficial-blog]

Partners In Love by Noel Smith

[noelsmithofficial-blog]

After his High School Graduation, Derek left for the Army… without notifying his long-term girlfriend Cynthia, until he’d already gone. But just a few weeks after his departure, Cynthia found out that she was pregnant. She chose not to tell Derek of the baby and also, not to disclose the identity of her son’s Father to anyone. Fast forward ten years. Derek is still in the Army; moving on up the ranks. Cynthia is now a successful business executive, balancing her job and her (almost) ten year old son. What will happen when Derek comes back to town, only to find his High School Sweet-Heart raising a little boy that looks just like him? What will Cynthia’s reaction be when she encounters the man who left her out of the blue; her son’s Father? A Decade has Past, but is it too late?

[noelsmithofficial-blog]

Four years have passed since Sarah Bishop's eighteenth birthday; since she shifted for the first time. Four years have passed since Sarah rejected her mate and left for college. Now twenty-two years old, Sarah has earned her degree and is ready to start her career in nursing. When war breaks out between two of the world's most powerful packs, she's sent to help nurse injured fighters back to health. How will Sarah react when a man she's never met comes in one day, claiming to be her mate? What will happen when she discovers his identity?

[noelsmithofficial-blog]

ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?

That's a tough one. Robots, probably. At least they won't eat or claw me. :P