Setting is hugely important to me, and it’s always the first place I start when thinking up a new story. I’m a firm believer that the setting can anchor the plot—and the more realistic the setting is, the more readers …
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Letter to Tolik: Rostov-on-Don, Russia Dear Tolik, You won’t remember me: I’m not the person you wanted to know back then, in 1987, in Rostov-on-Don, city founded by Peter the Great several defunct empires ago. But you, your wife Tanya, …
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Thirteen years. I left North Dakota thirteen years ago, bound for the east coast, and except for holidays and few stretches of summer, I haven’t been back. But for eighteen years, North Dakota was almost all I knew. My …
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Forecasts as Inspiration Forecast: 2085, published in OMNI Reboot, was born out of recurrent nightmares. I often dream that I’m driving along the highway and suddenly spot a tornado in my rearview mirror. The black vortex swirls closer and closer …
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I didn’t intend to spend my snow day reading my ARC of Songs of My Selfie. Instead, I intended to use today as a work day, to grade the never-ending composition papers sitting in my inbox or perhaps plan some …
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