Giving Your Story Roots by Phillip T. Stephens

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Phillip T. Stephens, author of “Aims True” and “Coincidence and Correspondence,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.   Using metaphors and motifs to nourish your prose My college writing teachers treated metaphors as useful decorations for writing.  My philosophy teachers called them “poetry and nonsense.” In the forty years…

Xylomancy: Reading the Future in Wood by K.N Johnson

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from K.N. Johnson, author of “The Clearing,” which will be featured in the upcoming anthology ON FIRE set for release on 12.01.17. In my story “The Clearing,” Elka and her fellow townspeople participate in a ceremony seeking messages from the gods. When a big lightning storm brews, they gather wood,…