In anticipation of the upcoming novel Aelita’s War: Sparrow Squadron, a review of a Soviet woman combat pilot’s thrilling memoir of World War II. Read more »
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As a writer who needs to pay the bills, it’s easy to think of a dayjob as a necessary burden. But all those ours toiling
This week’s writing prompt resulted in more of a fragment than a full story. Who knows? Maybe it’ll lead to something bigger.
The prompt is “That is disgusting,” Christina shook her head.
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The writers group I participate in starts out every meeting with a writing prompt exercise. Someone grabs a random book from the shelves of the library where we meet and picks out a page. The first sentence of the page becomes our writing prompt and we have five minutes to come up with something. Every now and then, I actually come up with something coherent, so I’m happy to share it.
Today’s writing prompt is the sentence, “That’s the park.”
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I like history and I like writing. I use a teddy bear Stalin as my avatar because that pretty much describes my blogging: an absurdist