Can we ever know the past? Sure, we have research—records, documents, and archaeological sites—but long-ago words and stones leave huge gaps. Sensory memory rushes to fill those gaps, dangling its low-hanging fruit....
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When I wrote Playground Zero, a coming-of-age novel set in Berkeley during the counterculture movement of the 1960s, I wanted to convey something of the city’s splendor, along with the anarchy of those years....
The seemingly simple plea appeared on my college class’s Facebook page: “Is this our classmate?”...
A story about a girl, two boys, and Playboy....
Story Circle Network presents a coming-of-age webinar with Sarah Relyea, Shelley Blanton-Stroud, and Elise Schiller....
An author reflects on the fate of Thing 1 and Thing 2...