There’s a piece of software available for writers called Ulysses, which maybe you’ve heard of. This article is about the company’s decision to move Ulysses to a subscription model, announced today on their blog and in a long Medium article by co-founder Max Seeleman. I’ve been periodically refreshing these and…

I don’t know when it was exactly, but at some point last year I decided I was going to start self-publishing a bunch of books. Short story anthologies, novels, chapbooks, etc. At some point after that I decided one of the books would be a collection of a bunch of…

It’s a plague. Is your phone sick? — Here it is, this is the kind of clickbait you’ve been waiting for. Tweets about phones dying. The kind of content to make you feel like a valued member of a band of happy-go-lucky miscreants who’ve become dependent on an emergent technology that victimizes and oppresses people in other countries…

Thinking of the families of the artists of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, and the families in Cambridge whose homes burned earlier this month. Thinking of the families of the Orlando nightclub shooting victims, and the innumerable other families dealing with the loss of loved ones due to interactions…

The mainstream media is desperate to keep us between the rock of Hillary Clinton’s corruption and the hard place of Donald Trump’s brain. Leading to the inevitable conclusion that voters this election season are resigning themselves to feeling bad about whoever they vote for. …

I was right there with everyone else. Tuned to the Democratic National Convention, as Chelsea Clinton grinned wide and finally introduced Post-Presumptive Nominee and her mother, Hillary Clinton. I was right there, a freshly undecided voter now that my candidate was knocked out, ready to be wooed by Hillary Clinton…

For all my white people who I don’t see posting, who I haven’t seen posting about what the police are doing in this country, this is for you. You’re on probation. It’s not okay anymore to deny police brutality. It’s not an acceptable response. If you do it out loud…

I wash my face and ask the wall to turn on the morning address. The music starts and then he’s there; a whisp of hair signifying his grand entrance. “Hey everyone, happy Wednesday! Wednesdays were always one of my favorite days — I think because you’re half over with something…