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Fate and the Scaffolding of Reality
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas (Jonah) arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
~ Gabriel García Márquez
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Author Thomas Moore wrote “The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity.”
Somewhere between January 1st and February 20th, I realized who I would become was in those pages — either explicitly in the writing, or in between thoughts — that space in between the sentences we eventually grow into.
The Poet wrote “I submitted a poem to a magazine and one is being published. They asked me for a bio, but I don’t know what a bio is.”
I write this to remind you that who you were meant to be was inside you from the moment you left the womb, and probably while you were still swimming in your first dark waters, your heart beating inside your mother.
By writing, we come to learn we are timeless and infinite, and that our stories matter and need to be cast into the world.
~ Laura Lentz
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William S. Burroughs did not merely write. He spliced, he dissected, he tore apart syntax like an impatient god dismantling his own creation. His cut-up technique, devised with Brion…
