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I am an anxious person. I want to know the future before I act. It feels like a need. Is desire a synonym for need or for want? Want is need-Lite. Sometimes I’m afraid to say I need something, so I say I want it instead. This makes it feel optional. If I want-want-want, I won’t appear needy.
Amanda Miska, from “Altschmerz,” published in Bedfellows
I have heard people say they wanted to be fucked until they couldn’t see straight. I want to be fucked until I think straight. This means often. This means insatiable. Oblivion is the word that comes to mind. Like obliterate: to destroy all traces.
— Amanda Miska, from “Altschmerz,” published in Bedfellows
New stories June 1, 2016
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Coming June 1, 2016 to Little Fiction | Big Truths — Amanda Miska’s short story, “Weightless And Hysterical”
There was a man I thought I was in love with. In hindsight, I was infatuated with the idea of him, the newness after a relationship of ten years had just ended. I stalked him on Facebook after we met. Because that’s what people do these days: a preliminary review, scanning for red flags and binging on information about the person’s past in an attempt to “know” them more quickly. We want to know everything without the vulnerability of actually having to connect.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The (Online) Stories We Tell by Amanda Miska.
"I have a secret fear that I will never be really really good at writing because I’m an extrovert. I know very few other writers who are also extroverted (I did a very scientific Twitter survey that estimates maybe one or two in every ten writers, maybe less). I get my energy and inspiration from spending time with people. I have to be very disciplined to sit down by myself and write. I can’t spend long hours by myself, disconnected from the world..." --Amanda Miska I really appreciated this essay about extroverted writers and a host of other interesting topics. This kind of community stuff is so important to me because the endless hours alone at the desk can sometimes feel like a prison.
Tumbling Towards
I just want to give a cool lady and a really great friend Amanda Miska a shout. She is a terrific writer and just had her first story printed in a literary magazine. Her tumblr is Tumbling Towards; you should check it out and follow it, if you want to learn more about her work, read stories that she posts by other cool writers, and hear music from great artists like Ryan Adams and Kathleen Edwards.
Friday Rex | April 11, 2014
Friday Rex | April 11, 2014
Happy Baseball Month! Welcome back to Friday Rex.
David Tomaloff has 3 poems up over at Split Lip Magazine that you should read.
Beautiful new story by Matt Fogarty this week at SmokeLong, WHITE SMOKE:
“You know he went to the balcony. Popes don’t go to the balcony, but Karol went to the balcony. Said these things about there’s no such thing as a faraway land. All of us, all the people, one land…
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