A blog by Bedrieger Junction's Slant of Light writing group
Idiolect I am a world uninhabited except by me. Only I understand its language. In that world is a catalpa tree. It lived in the backyard of my childhood home on Thompson Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. My oldest sister thinks that tree was at the Jackson Street house, but I never lived there. At…
young dog howls…
Currently reading: What If We Get Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. The core of the book is a collection of interviews, including one with Mustafa Suleyman on the topic of AI. (Suleyman at one time was Google’s VP of AI product management and AI policy.) I’m more skeptical of Suleyman’s…
In 2025 I read 68 books (that I logged), theoretically totaling 17,352 pages.
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What book from childhood shaped your art?
Social reading apps tempt me to put off tackling slower works…
Our puritan home / housed a ghost…
The sky will be strangely blank / without cross-hatched contrails…
Skin tossed onto the chair / spine tucked under the bed…