Updating verysmallocean.org is actually quite a bit of work. Today, I removed the old featured off-site content from every page and moved them to the suggested media and suggested reads pages, moved the 2024 blog posts to their own page and updated all the links to reflect that, updated the footers, added the table of […]
Tag: fiction
Consider the Chinyingi Footbridge
Excerpt from the award winning 2023 novel Community Board by Tara Conklin, used without permission, pages 164-168 [ Blogger’s note: The footbridge, Brother Crispin, the fatal accident and the story of building it are all real. Darcy Clipper and Marcus Dash-La Grand are of course fictional. Community Board is a novel ] [ . . […]
Today, We Are Lucky
[…] objectively, I was a very, very lucky person and it was important to remind myself of this fact or else risk a self-absorption so complete that I might actually disappear into my own navel. /// I am not unlucky, I said aloud. I have a home; I have parents who love me, despite their recent abandonment; I have food; I have strong legs and a brain that works (usually) and my teeth are fairly […]
Lost in Mist 