Description per Goodreads: This is a story of Androxen, the sea, a nice bunch of aliens of the Andromeda galaxy, Samira, and some serious citizens of earth. It begins with Androxen of the seas, who can only breed males and so ever on the lookout for siren-mates in a waterful life together. But the old … Continue reading Book Review: Clovers
Tag: Words
Writers don’t necessarily read like other people. Many of us notice little things—plot devices, grammar errors, characterization flaws—that other readers don’t, and they bug us, because we’ve sensitized ourselves to what good writing reads like. We get labeled as snobs for it, sometimes, but I think it’s part of being a writer. (I explained more … Continue reading The Benefits of Reading Like A Writer
I don’t know if I can pen this. I can only ever try. It’s the motion of a dreamer, Catching thoughts as they pass by. But will I still remember, All the words they’d ever say? All the hopes and dreams and whispers, That will never go away. If you find them, would you know … Continue reading The Pulse of a Poet
The words are common. Coarse. They’re whatever we want them to be, meaningless modifiers without clarify. They add nothing but shock, something to say when we have nothing else. Are our heads so empty that we cannot find le mot juste anymore? The words are large, swallowing up our sentences and demeaning the hearers. What … Continue reading All the Words of Profanity
It’s where love meets desire on the corner of breakup and divorce. An evening out with the wrong person, and all we do is call it cheating, as though someone broke a handful of rules. Like going sixty in a forty zone. Or peeking at cards. The start of torture, unlocking Pandora’s box of doubts. … Continue reading We Call It Cheating
Due to the recent passing of Maya Angelou, I have been thinking about her words lately, particularly her well-known quote pertaining to one’s legacy: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” She was talking about life, about … Continue reading Maya Angelou and Remembering Words
Andrea Lundgren 