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Kathleen Anderson Found Dead
Kathleen Anderson, born in 1968 in the nation's capital, has died. Kathleen grew up in the popular Silver Spring, MD suburb of Woodmoor. She attended The American University in Washington, DC from 1986-1990, though she did not graduate. Her writing career began in earnest in 2026. She wrote many articles and published them on a Facebook page before digging in to pen her first non fiction work, "I Remember Democracy," in 2027. The book became an overnight sensation, and became a handbook for the Resistance.
By Kathleen Anderson 3 months ago in Writers
The Untold Story Of Sid A Hirji
Sid Aaron Hirji's life was like a fable. It had some horrendous things in it, but like a fable it was filled with wondrous stuff too. Some things in his life were outrageous. For example, he could stare at a wall without being bored, just thinking about a random topic. Generally that topic would bridge to another topic and he would form a tangible way to go from topic to topic then to the original thought.
By Sid Aaron Hirji3 months ago in Writers
The Legend of Lewis . Runner-Up in The Posthumous Author Challenge.
Damn! We all thought we’d get one last dance, one last drive down a sunbleached two-lane blacktop through fields and forgotten forests where the trees canopy the road and rivers sing songs to travelers on bridges practically kissing them. Some may have even hoped to steal one last kiss, before dying as it were, but Harper Lewis has left the building.
By Harper Lewis 3 months ago in Writers
The Instructions of Mira Alsop
Mira Alsop wrote one book of fiction in her lifetime. It sold four hundred and twelve copies, most of them to relatives. She wrote, by contrast, an estimated eleven thousand pages of appliance instructions over a thirty-one-year career at Dorland Home Products. Toasters, humidifiers, box fans, a line of pasta makers that never made it past regional distribution. She held the title of Technical Writer II and, for the last four years of her career, Technical Writer II (Senior).
By Aarsh Malik3 months ago in Writers
The Marginal Life of Aarsh Malik
Aarsh Malik published one collection of poetry in his life. It is called Small Weather , it ran to sixty-one pages, and it sold, by his publisher's own generous estimate, under three hundred copies. For thirty-four years afterward, he worked as an editor and translator, uncredited on most covers, thanked in a paragraph of acknowledgments if he was lucky, shaping other people's sentences for a living while, as far as anyone knew, quietly setting his own aside.
By Aarsh Malik3 months ago in Writers
Playing the Writer
Not all those who wander are lost It is ironic perhaps, given the circumstances of her death, that this is the line now most closely associated with Hannah Moore. Ironic too, of course, that this quote, popularised following her now infamous 2027 eulogy for her dear friend Paul Stewart, should be one that Moore herself would never have laid claim to, for, as any literature student would attest, she remained stalwart in her opposition to plagiarism until the time of her death in 2031. Indeed, in her 2026 poem “Pilgrims in an Unholy Land”, Moore suggested that the use of Artificial Intelligence in art of any sort might be seen as an act of mass plagiarism leading to a cultural circularity akin to the desertification of fertile land, and it has perhaps been this “Human Intelligence” approach which has allowed so many readers to connect with her work since the posthumous publication of “Rising to the Challenge” by JCox Publishing House in 2033. In his personal forward, Cox himself called Moore’s work “deeply and beautifully human.”
By Hannah Moore3 months ago in Writers
