Tag Archives: grief

Book Review: Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Tietsu

Reinterpreting Shakespeare is one of those things that seems obvious on paper, I mean Shakespeare himself borrowed large swaths of his ideas of those that came before him, so turning it into a cycle is an obvious get. The problem … Continue reading →

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Sugar, Spice, and Insulin

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Tietsu

It’s only the third of January and I’m already waiting for a new year, some sort of arbitrary clean slate to make things new. I brace myself against a guard rail and watch the slow stream of people enter the … Continue reading →

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Grief’s Promise

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Tietsu

Writing is full of false starts and mulligans. Were it a sport it would be an inscrutable mass of expletives and rage-crumpled pages. This is not news to me, nor, I suspect, is it new to you. It is the … Continue reading →

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The ‘Kegger’ Question

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Tietsu

There was an argument, or rather a statement met with silence that he had said he wanted a ‘kegger’ at my grandfather’s funeral. The kids, the proper family, couldn’t reconcile this. The man who swore to his mother as a young … Continue reading →

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Post Processing

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Tietsu

There are certain parts of grief that seem to change with every passing moment. Little broken things that shift in the soul like shattered glass and at their worst break something else amid their rattling. I figure the pieces can … Continue reading →

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