Let's Get Coffee: Navigating the Existential Angst of Loneliness
If you are lonely, fear not—you are not alone. Kate Gaston gives us her two cents on finding our way out of loneliness.
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Jul 24, 2013
A Secret Message in Oxford
Oy, lads and lasses. I’m writing this from the front steps of a little flat in Edinburgh where the Petersons are shacking up for the...
Jul 18, 2013
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Pt. 2: The Letters
“When times are good, be happy; but when times are hard, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can...
Jul 17, 2013
Stealing Cars
One night, years ago, while tucking my brother and me into bed, my father started on the subject of stealing. Whether my brother...
Jun 13, 2013
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Pt. 1: The Sacramental Echo
“You formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully...
Jun 10, 2013
Tradecraft Pt. 3: Letter from the Editor
A few years back, I taught woodworking to teenage boys. They’d come into my shop with big ideas about the table or the bookshelf they...
May 27, 2013
Memory of a Midnight Sea
Today is Memorial Day, so it occurs to me that this may be an appropriate memory to haul to the surface. I resubmit it for your perusal....
May 16, 2013
Jellybean Highfive and the Enthusiastic Youth Pastor
Jellybean Highfive stood in front of the back of a room, his back to the front of the wall. Directionally near to him sat a youth pastor...
Apr 17, 2013
Breaking a Dark Enchantment
[This is a short piece I wrote for Story Warren that may resonate with Rabbit Roomers as well. –S.D. Smith] “Wonder is involuntary...
Apr 12, 2013
How a Boy Became an Artist
When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was a kid, he didn’t play sports, but he loved art. He paints the funny and touching story of a little boy who...
Apr 10, 2013
On Creativity: A Letter to My Children
[She will be miffed at me for saying this, but it would not surprise me at all to find that, in twenty or thirty years time, my singular...
Apr 9, 2013
Why I Want to Be George R. R. Martin’s Neighbor
[Editor’s note: We’re really excited about having Jeffrey Overstreet as one of our guest speakers at Hutchmoot 2013. Jeffrey has long...
Apr 1, 2013
April Fools’ Day
On April Fools’ Day my grandmother and her sisters packed their lunch pails like any other school day. Their mother walked them to the...
Mar 28, 2013
Imaginations Should Be Exercised (by James Witmer)
[This post by James Witmer is one of my favorites. It really captures what we mean at Story Warren by saying we want to be “Allies in...
Mar 25, 2013
Happy Birthday, Dear Flannery…
“Well I thanks you for your birthday message,” Flannery O’Connor wrote to a friend in 1960. “I am thirty-five years old and still have...
Mar 16, 2013
On the Greatness of Saint Patrick
Patrick lived at the end of the world. A Roman citizen, he was born and raised in Britain, the northern- and westernmost extremity of a...
Mar 14, 2013
Jellybean Highfive and the Spinning Portrait of Death
Jellybean Highfive sent a servant down to the auction hall to do his bidding. Well, Trevor couldn’t be classified as a servant per se....
Mar 13, 2013
A Call to Adventure: Rendezvous with Me in England!
There’s a place across the sea where some of my favorite stories were born. Aslan, Frodo, Robin Hood, Peter Pan, Hazel and Fiver of...
Mar 11, 2013
“I Wish Our World Was Like That”
My daughter Sophia, 6 years old, has become a big fan of the Avengers. Her favorite, she says, is Thor. So after watching The Avengers...
Mar 8, 2013
Tradecraft, Pt. 1: Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling
Tradecraft: noun ˈtrād-ˌkraft – skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage. One long standing...
Mar 6, 2013
What Has Come to Us
I peeled the sticker off my lunch pear, then ran it under the faucet, frustrated. It wasn’t a real piece of fruit. It was only a shadow...
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