Micro Memoir Recipe Box By Heather Sellers Micro memoirs are true stories told in tight packages—from a deft paragraph to a page or two. They are delicious to read, but devilishly difficult to write.  Micro memoir requires strong story-telling skills (plot! character! turns! depth!) alongside careful attention to metaphor, compression, and evocative language. And you have to do this […]
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Mami King Mami King: How Ma Mon Luk Found Love, Riches, and the Perfect Bowl of Soup by Jacqueline Chio-Lauri (Author) and Kristin Sorra (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Rejected by the parents of the girl he loves for being poor, Ma Mon Luk strikes out from China and boards a steamship headed for the Philippines …
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God Meets With His Editor                                                                 By Ali Solomon  GOD: Did you get the new tablets I sent you?   EDITOR: I did. All seventy-five of them.   GOD: And? What do you think?   EDITOR: Some good stuff in there—”Thou shalt not spit on the ground in public.” Solid. “Thou shalt not double-dip in thy neighbor’s honey.” Also gold.  GOD: But?  EDITOR: We’re […]
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