Jacob Knabb's "Studebaker"

I like Jacob Knabb's short piece "Studebaker" which you can find at the cool website, Everyday Genius.

It was posted on 10/25/11. If you haven't checked it out, you should. It's a web journal that's updated Monday through Friday. Different months of the journals have different editors. Some of the stories in the journal have been featured in Wigleaf Top 50 Stories for 2011.

The piece is about a kid whose father's car has been in an accident. The piece begins, "I have never been able to describe the way my father’s voice sounded with his nose full of blood as cars passed us on the interstate." Check out the story here: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011/10/jacob-s-knabb.html

What do you look for in a short piece of fiction? What grabs your attention and compels you to keep reading?

Welcome to Read. Write. Think. Discover.

Hello, everyone,

Welcome to my new blog. Have you ever noticed that there's a lot of noise out there? Noise on the TV. Noise on the radio. Noise on the Internet. I want to help you try and cut through the noise.

The goal of this blog is to introduce you to writing that I think is really cool.



So, let's begin. The most logical place to begin, since this is an Internet blog, is with stories on the Internet. I'm going to try and find writing from the Net that I think is cool. And then I hope you'll check it out too. And maybe we can discuss it together.

The first story I'm going to highlight is "Between Things" by Roxane Gay, which you can find here: http://www.pindeldyboz.com/between_things.htm. For now, I'm not going to discuss the works. But maybe later, I will. Maybe later, this site will also include other cool things like author interviews to help you discover some works by authors you didn't know or works by authors that you thought you knew but didn't.

I look forward to reading, writing, and discovering with you. Feel free to comment, suggest, or argue.

--Lori