Writing prompts for the juried exhibition at the 410 Project. Is a community art space located at 523 South Front Street in Mankato, Minnesota. Grab your notebook and get there before the exhibit comes down on March 4th! Being physically present alongside the work of art is one of the generative constraints that makes this exercise fruitful.

Monday, August 3, 2015. Monday, July 20, 2015. I bought the image from Frenchfroufrou, an Etsy shop. The different blues made this image grab my attention.

Welcome to History That Never Was. Super heroes in Cobalt City and beyond. Steampunk mystery for younger readers. Steampunk action and adventure for adults. Alternate history stories and essays about the real history. Contemporary dark fantasy short stories featuring supernatural protagonists and antagonists. Stories of unlikely super heroes. The Marsh Sisters are Coming Back! .

Editorial Services and Freelance Work. Seven Dark Stars and Blackness Absolute. The Meaning of the Dark. All Stories Require Base-Level Optimism.

Award Winning Writer, Educator, and Pushcart Prize Nominee. Monday, April 21, 2014. You Might Curse Before You Bless. Next Monday, they will answer these questions on THEIR websites or blogs, and each nominate two other authors.

By Alessandra Bava, poet provocateur. I have read so many works by Marina Tsvetaeva. Since last summer that Im totally obsessed by her. It seems to me that I have swallowed a whole world and that I now need to process it, much like an alligator digesting its huge prey. I have had a poem about her 2 daughters whirling in my mind for weeks. Its so heartbreaking, that I fear I may never be able to write it down.