by risa dickens
the latest incarnation of a tangled bunch of stories i’ve been poking at for a long time, trying to get them to turn into something. i pulled it into this shape and then got some advice that made me look at it another way, and didn’t end up submitting it to the contest […]

This is just a list of some of the greatest books ever. They are at this place in the layers of stuff accumulating in my brain that’s linked to an age where I was thinking about so many things for the very first time. Or, if I read them later, they’re linked to the piece […]

by Risa Dickens
I’ve begun cutting pieces out of this early attempt at a novel to look at what the stories are and which ones matter to me. I have two very different feelings about the two main narrative trains, and at first I thought they would work well woven together. The darkness of Jane’s story […]