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by Mike Power

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  • Baby Jewels

    Good morning, Baby JewelsAnd how are you today?Do you have someone to help youKeep the wolves at bay? I’m still losing the same fightI’m still waking up with youThe first thing on my mind I’m still hacking through the weedsI’m still scraping on my kneesI’m still providing answers for crazy peopleI’m still missing you I hope Read more

  • Demo: How About Tonight?

    I wrote this song on a barstool in a place called Reichenbach Hall. I wrote a lot of lyrics there.The song is an ode to hedonism. Because the world doesn’t have enough of those, no matter how hard men like Oscar Wilde and Keith Richards have tried. When you feel like tomorrow might not come Read more

  • Bootcamp Fiction

    Over the weekend I attended a fiction writing bootcamp run by Laura van der Berg at Catapult and one of the exercises was to write a story using three unrelated ingredients as organically as possible. The three words I was given were: Seaside TownRomantic TensionCrying Woman  Here’s my story: At first I wasn’t sure if Read more

  • Fictional Humans of New York (FHONY) – The Early Bird

    If I just keep moving….Which way am I facing? West? If I keep moving westward, I’ll eventually fall off a cliff, or drown, or circumnavigate the globe. Or get tired and quit before I realize any of those lofty ambitions.I could go east…just to be contrary. Eastern philosophy suits my state of mind. It’s gentler. Read more

  • Review: Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam

    I have trouble making friends. I don’t do well with the superficial early stages of friendship, and this inhibition carries over into my reading habits; I resist getting to know a new cast of characters. But Anwar Saleem, the first character introduced by Tanwi Nandini Islam in her novel Bright Lines immediately felt like an Read more

  • The Lost Art of Letter Writing: The Rejection Letter

    Dear Author,Thank you for giving me the opportunity to review your novel Drowning In My Tears. While the story of a man’s struggle to overcome debilitating halitosis is uplifting, I’m not sure the market universe for your work is broad enough to inspire the confidence of our agency.As long as there are readers who prefer Read more