Matthew Toffolo: What is your story about? Dossie H. Terrell: Clare could never reconcile the habitually dirty, disorderly lifestyle of Glenn, her morbidly obese spouse, with her puritanical sensibilities. To that end, she finally reached her coping limits. She wants out but, in the meantime, takes pleasure in tormenting him and waiting for what she… Continue reading Interview with Writer Dossie H. Terrell (Good Things Come To Those Who Wait)
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Interview with Writer Paul Vitols (MOVING DAY)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your short story about? Paul Vitols: It’s about a 5-year-old boy witnessing, without knowing it, the breakup of his family. 2. What genres would you say this story is in? coming-of-age, memoir, literary 3. How would you describe this story in two words? sensuous, poignant 4. What movie have you seen… Continue reading Interview with Writer Paul Vitols (MOVING DAY)
Interview with Novelist Dayna Mason (I’m Just That Into Me)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your novel about? Dayna Mason: In a playful response to the book, “He’s Just Not That Into You” the authors demonstrate how to stop searching for love from impossible sources and find it within yourself. They tell a tale based on a true story of two traumatized friends attempting to get… Continue reading Interview with Novelist Dayna Mason (I’m Just That Into Me)
Interview with Novelist Wanda Adams Fischer (EMPTY SEATS)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your novel about? Wanda Adams Fischer: After being drafted by the Montreal Expos to play minor league baseball in Jamestown, NY, three young men who’d been champion ballplayers in their respective hometowns think it will be an easy ride to the big time. Little do they realize that they’ll be competing… Continue reading Interview with Novelist Wanda Adams Fischer (EMPTY SEATS)
Interview with Poet Gladys W. Muturi
1) What is the theme of your poem? An open letter to the KKK, Neo-Nazi, and other white supremacists groups. 2) What motivated you to write this poem? I remember watching the Charlottesville rally on the news and I was painfully distraught by the hate from Neo-Nazi groups. I thought of why this hatred is… Continue reading Interview with Poet Gladys W. Muturi
Interview with Poet Bob Mazzei
1) What is the theme of your poem? The poem Morbid Deceiver was published on a book my friend Jeff Lowe and I wrote in 2014, “Ziggurat – The Age of Total Dominion,” and it is about the sad condition of slavery that humankind lives under the power of our class-divided society. Jeff wrote… Continue reading Interview with Poet Bob Mazzei
Interview with Poet BRIAN T. SLUGA
1) What is the theme of your poem? It’s about a feared dragon terrorizing a village. Its set in a Mid-evil time. 2) What motivated you to write this poem? I wanted to do a poem out of the norm. Just to create a visual to the reader. Hope people like it. 3) How long… Continue reading Interview with Poet BRIAN T. SLUGA
Interview with Writer Ed Kulzer (Twitter Short Story)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your story about? Ed Kulzer: The story is about a standard, carbon copy, cardigan-wearing office worker, a woman becoming aware of how suffocating the lack of fulfillment in her monotonous life has become. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”, opined Thoreau, presciently foretelling the gargantuan army of spiritual… Continue reading Interview with Writer Ed Kulzer (Twitter Short Story)
Interview with Writer Paul Levinson (Twitter Short Story)
Matthew Toffolo: What is your story about? Paul Levinson: About saving some of the books that were destroyed when the Ancient Library of Alexandria was burned. Some historians regard this as the worst intellectual disaster in history – as many as 750,000 volumes were lost, some were unique copies, including the only copies of about… Continue reading Interview with Writer Paul Levinson (Twitter Short Story)
Interview with Writer James Stack (The Wycliffe Six)
July 2018 Winning Short Story Writer. Matthew Toffolo: What is your story about? James Stack: A sophomore in college discovers who his friends truly are, and that the bigotry he’s been taught is wrong. 2. What genres would you say this story is in? Young Adult, Coming of Age, Mystery, Historical 3. How would you… Continue reading Interview with Writer James Stack (The Wycliffe Six)
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