Talking Writing Magazine

About the Man Who Kept a Silver Nail File

Flash Nonfiction by Susan Terris

The man who once stood on a chair was also the one who took me skating with him every Saturday morning when I was a girl.

My Meeting with Rebecca Sugar

Comic Feature by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

Art school helps, but stubbornness and passion for learning are vital.

An Indian Summer Like No Other

Essay by Srijani Ganguly

Others might get sick, be hospitalized, or even die, but no one we know will really be affected by it.

Ready or Not

Essay by Joan Frank

After a stunned period, I resumed querying agents. What else was there to do?

Ode to Frog

Poetry by Athena Kildegaard

How much there is to sing of, breathless as frog at noon, a song echoing desire, our pent-up viral longing for something more than monitor.

Humble Figurines

Essay by Elizabeth Bales Frank

Better to live alone than with this kind of emotional wreckage, I counseled myself.

Rewiring the Wormhole

Essay by Barbara Calhoun

If a group of people, maybe our entire planet, wanted to exit the wormhole, would their desire be enough to make it happen?

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