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Continue reading →: Launching a Gumroad Page: “Rests Like a Bastard Sword”I’ve also taken the time today to set up a Gumroad page as a landing spot of sorts for independently publishing and selling some of the stories I’m working on. The first piece is a just-a-hair-past-nano piece of short fiction, “Rests Like a Bastard Sword,” from my Short as Fictober…
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Continue reading →: Looking Ahead: Disco ElysiumAs much as I’ve read and watched on the game’s conceit and design, I’ve tried to avoid narrative spoiler as much as possible. I know that you play a detective who can’t remember who he is, but is tasked with solving a murder. You traverse a fictional world (with over…
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Continue reading →: The Power in Pie and Conversation: Listening to Bishop Garrison’s “Silver Door Diner”Good morning, all. Hope this missive finds you and yours doing well. Just finished making a bowl of savory oatmeal (I’ve been on a kick lately, taking inspiration from Kevin Hearne’s breakfast endeavors). While cooking the oatmeal, I listened to the rest of Bishop Garrison’s short story, “The Silver Door…
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Continue reading →: Reading Rec: The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip JohnsonLast Tuesday, The Forever Sea was published by DAW books, and while I’m not too far into yet, I’m absolutely enjoying the hell out of it.
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Continue reading →: Late to Dinner: Supergiant GamesLate to Dinner posts are about something (or someone) that has been part of the cultural (and usually pop cultural at that) zeitgeist for a number of years, but which I’ve only discovered recently. Good evening, friends. I hope this missive finds you all doing well, and feeling relatively hearty…
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Continue reading →: Reading Recs: Poppies, Ice Cream, and Murder BotsJust finished up three books in the last week, and I thought I might share them with you. Be well, friends, and keep reading. Huzzah!
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Continue reading →: Molly Tuttle-Live at Grimey’s
Earlier this year I discovered the music of Billy Strings, and through the magic of YouTube’s algorithms, I subsequently found Molly Tuttle.
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Continue reading →: On Augsburg University’s Creative Writing MFA ProgramI really can’t speak highly enough of the transformative power of the program, its faculty, and its students on the life of a writer. I know that mine is but one story in the larger tale of Augsburg’s Creative Writing MFA program, and that many students could and most likely…
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Continue reading →: Taking a WalkGood evening, folks, from a basement out here in the wilds of central Minnesota. I hope that this finds you well, and feeling hearty and hale. Just some quick thoughts which occurred to me while taking the dogs for their nightly jaunt I wanted to share with all of you,…
Greetings,
I’m Ryan
I’m an E-12 Data Integrationist, amateur pasty-crafter, and sporadic storyteller. I hang my hat in central Minnesota with my wife, our three children, a labradoodle, and a couple of cats.
I earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Augsburg University, and my fiction has appeared in Talking Soup, Barstow & Grand, and Volume One.
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