
Writing that rises from the dark: haunted women, buried secrets, and the craft of psychological fiction.
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I began the Dark Room as a series to reimagine work from my old notebooks, in collaboration with my younger selves. This month’s guest post brings a fresh twist to that concept, with Louise I. Baker developing a lyrical essay from a poem sh...
The play Buried Child is powered by a shocking engine, a black beating heart—infanticide.
You do not mention it, not once.
Here’s what’s clear: you’re getting ready to audition for the part of Shelly. You are b...
A monthly series of poems, stories, and essays from my old notebooks, reimagined.
I started writing as a kid, mostly poems, bushels of them in my teens and early twenties. Then the poetry stopped. Dead. Like its spirit had been surgically...
First, a note about the story . . .
I keep a standing appointment with the squirrels around my house. No one assigned me this. They don’t know I exist, or if they do, they don’t care. Most mornings, I clock their routines: the burying, th...
Eli was holding my hand when we noticed her. A woman was standing on the highest rock, the one that looked like an arrowhead. We never went up there. He was too afraid of heights. Besides, it took a good half hour to hike to the top of the...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Writer of dark(ish) fiction and verse. Sometimes it's weird, too. Assistant Fiction Editor @ Identity Theory. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette at Aevitas Creative Management. Also writes for young readers as Nancy Stone. (nancystonewrites.com)
Writer, voice, inept producer at ❄️Cold Kitchen Radio❄️ (creaky creative memoir & poetry readings). My poetry consists mostly of writing down my tantrums. Proud contributor to Women's Perspective. (All original content produced (c) Louise I. Baker)
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