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An Excerpt from The Muse

Read on for an excerpt from my short story, The Muse. The day she met Dalton, Paula had been sitting in the middle of a museum, staring at the statue ahead of her. The white lights glared down at the room. She bent over her sketchbook, but she couldn’t get her hand to do what…

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Review: Carrie by Stephen King

Carrie is Stephen King’s debut novel that shot him into America’s spotlight in 1974. There’s good reason this book was the one that made him into the horror icon we know him as today. Carrie is the story of a teenage girl pushed to her limits. Carrie White felt loathing at every turn – at…

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Review: Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

Welcome back! Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reading Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice. This was recommended to be put on my reading list for my master’s thesis project. I really enjoyed reading this book – it’s only the second vampire book I actually remember most of (I read Dracula a…

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Siri, play 23 by Wallice✨ This is a sign from the universe I got to present the full-length novel I wrote for my degree in a reading yesterday, and after this week I’ll be graduated with my MA in creative writing! Choosing Wilkes was the best decision I’ve ever made - the community within the program is incomparable to any other writing environment I’ve been in and I’ve had a blast the past year and a half! Residency is online again this round but I don’t mind, as long as I get to say hi to everyone I can ☺️ I can’t wait to jump into the MFA this semester! Took myself on a date to the LBJ Library and lost my mind friendly reminder of me september🪴 Made my first recipes out of @mollybaz’s COOK THIS BOOK! I made Big Shells with (Spinach) & Mozz and Salted WaJu Granita for dessert, plus a cherry limeade w the extra quarter of lime! Thank you to my roommates for being the guinea pigs 😌 ft our new table I’m in love with!!!! Recently got back from a life-changing week at residency in Wilkes-Barre, PA! I’ve been in the creative writing program at Wilkes for a year now and this was the first time I got to go to residency in person. I feel like I’ve met and talked with more people in a few days than I have in my entire life and I love every single one of them! It was so nice to meet everyone face-to-face, including my mentor, Taylor, and my dear cohort who I feel like I’ve known for years at this point! I’m still reeling from being surrounded by so much incredible talent from the faculty, alumni, and other students alike. I got to go onstage and read two of my essays even though it scared the daylights out of me. I took a long form fiction class with Beverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys, even though SHE scares the living daylights out of me! I got to talk with professors that include two Colorado Book Award finalists, Norman Mailer’s official biographer, and a woman two degrees of separation from Ernest Hemingway who is a damn good author in her own right. I got to sing Irish Pub Songs with National Book Award winner Colum McCann! And in my desperate search for Dr. Pepper, I accidentally bought a two liter bottle. And you know what? I can’t wait to go back in January and do it all over again!! I’m so glad I chose Wilkes to be my home away from home. This experience and the people are like no other!! #writeatwilkes #wilkeslitfest I love her. She’s incredible “She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn’t care which, she was overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.” “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.” I avoided Shakespeare like the plague in undergrad, but now I’m CHOOSING to read Hamlet in graduate school. I haven’t read any of Billy’s plays since high school! Forever grateful for @sparknotes_ for making No Fear Shakespeare versions 😌✨