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
Category: Flash
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
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!