
Fiction exploring personality, dreams, and language. Poetry and essays too.
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The Kingdom of Diana is an ongoing dispatch from an alternate world of poets and knights. Because it primarily takes place over notes, I have posted here the latest lore and dispatches.
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Note from Diana: I was at the bar one night when a guy in his mid-40s approached me, and by his khaki pants and spook grin, I could tell he was a fed. I was waiting for a friend to finish up in the bathroom so we could hightail out of there...
I was fifteen miles from the Venezuelan border, drunk and alone at a bar. And I was getting drunker even though I knew I would have to drive a motorcycle back to my place through the jungle in jorts and flip-flops—or maybe just find a quiet...
Note from Diana: the photography for this short story was captured by DC-based writer, photographer, and renaissance man, . He agreed to walk with me along the National Mall in the awful summer heat for several hours and take pictures after...
The June Weather Report, in which my life changes a lot but goes nowhere
The Will Diana Weather Report is a monthly dispatch for paid subscribers. Part writer’s diary, part dream journal, and part mystery, each edition will move between dr...
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My writing dreams are humble. Richest man in the world. Playboy. Warlord. Literary Mount Rushmore. Dead by 40, facedown in a ditch. Subscribe to me for fiction and poetry.
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