My short story “Taming the Tiger” will be published in the collection, The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell, later this spring by Untreed Reads. I wrote the story more than a year ago, so it was a little jarring to look back through it as it’s beingContinue reading “Short, dark and than some”
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Competing Narratives
Yesterday, when a journalist described the “competing narratives” surrounding President Trump’s now-infamous July phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, I was struck for the first time by the word narrative. As a fiction writer, the idea of narrative obviously isn’t new to me, but that news report suddenly made me think of the foundational importanceContinue reading “Competing Narratives”
The Kindness of #alternativefacts, Part 2
I’ve always tended to believe that the stories we construct about a thing are every bit as important as the actual thing. Feelings and shared meanings connect us and make us human. Maybe this is why I love writing novels. Fiction allows me to couch my own truths in other people’s stories. I’ve seen firstContinue reading “The Kindness of #alternativefacts, Part 2”
Life, Death, and Ginger Tea
Recently I paid a visit to a dear friend of mine who’s been ill. I shared the news of my pregnancy and told her about the unrelenting nausea I’d been experiencing. She, too, had been dealing with nausea, so she whipped out some Saltines for me to munch on and gave me her husband’s recipeContinue reading “Life, Death, and Ginger Tea”
Mindy Quigley 