TV settings Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer recommends fans turn off before watching Season 5: Installments: Volume 1: November 26, 2025 @ 8:00 pm ET (Ep 1-4) Volume 2: December 25, 2025 @ 8:00 pm ET (Ep 5-7) The Finale: December 31, 2025 @ 8:00 pm ET (Ep 8) Cast: Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David… Continue reading Season 5 Settings Installments Cast
On Writing ~ Barbara Jones Scott
“I think the important thing is to find what works for you and then stick to it, and to realize that what works for one project or at one time in your life may not work at another: the only real rule is to find what gets you to your project.“ My friend Neha sent… Continue reading On Writing ~ Barbara Jones Scott
Flash – Found Forms
A List Story that includes bolded words: Homework by Margo A Mertz Ink. i-n-k ink. My cartridge pen ran out of ink. Previous. p-r-e-v-i-o-u-s previous. The previous word was ink. Work. w-o-r-k work. You’re helping me with my homework. Huh? You are helping me… Breeze. b-r-e-e-z-e breeze. I wish we had a breezeway. Oh, the… Continue reading Flash – Found Forms
Flash Fiction – Found Forms
“One of my favorite approaches to writing flash fiction is to use a ready-made container – a constraint we’ll call a ‘found form.'” ~ Nancy Stohlman
On writing~ Miles Davis
What I Learned from Re-reading Death Row Hugger
“It’s always at night. The light is always jaundice.” Death Row Hugger
What I Love About “At Ethel and Harry’s on the Last Night”*
#KathyFish *(In) Wild Life Collected Works from 2003-2018 by Kathy Fish, Matter Works 2018, first edition From within the pages of (The New York Times) style magazine, Ethel creates a “conversation piece”—frankfurter and macaroni gelatin surprise. What I love about this story. Everything. From the title to Ethel’s first line of dialogue, “I could cry,”… Continue reading What I Love About “At Ethel and Harry’s on the Last Night”*
“Stranger Things” Season 4 Epic Finale
Music in Subtitles Because I am hard of hearing, and because Hollywood hasn’t figured out how to make dialogue as loud as explosions (even though DOLBY has been around for half a century), I watched the Epic Finale of Stranger Things (Season 4, Chapter 9 “The Piggyback”) with subtitles. Some surprisingly sloshy sounds: “Tentacles moistly… Continue reading “Stranger Things” Season 4 Epic Finale
The Girl in the Undershirt
I didn’t expect to be “the girl in the undershirt.” That’s not fair!
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