Summer Off Short Story Excerpt from Death and the Dream by J.J.Brown It’s been a hot, dry summer in Horseman’s Valley, deadly quiet, nothing for a ten-year-old child from the city to do. Sandy makes her own games while she waits for her mother to come take her back home to their old neighborhood in…
Excerpt from: DEATH AND THE DREAM by J.J.Brown (Short Stories) Amazon / Audible / iTunes / Barnes & Noble / IndieBound Pages of a discarded newspaper on a park bench in Tompkins Square Park ruffle in the oxygen-rich spring breeze. The paper lies beneath old trees just today remembering to flower along the shaded paths. The East Village…
Do you ever ask yourself, “Where did I come from?” Where I came from may not have been the question on my mind in the baby photo, when I was three months old. But it’s something I often asked myself from childhood up until today, the stuff of dreams and stories. Family stories may link…
I welcome author and writing teacher Pamela S. Wight to the blog today to share her path of publishing a illustrated children’s book, a process that took her favorite story from dream to reality. Pam is an inspiring teacher and I learned how to boost imagination in storytelling in her creative writing class. Here’s her…
The new rap comedy on the science of improvisation, Off the Top, is the latest brain child of hip-hop performer MC Baba Brinkman and neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD. What do people really know about the human brain’s activity when we create something new, specifically, do improv? Quite a lot, it turns out, thanks to this…
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