Every sentence begins with a stressed syllable, mostly alternating stressed and unstressed: DUH duh. DUH duh. (Yep, trochaic rhythm.)  I’m trying to make you feel how Painter receives a bit of inpu...

I was a sad person, composing a first-person narrative that was fictionally composed by a sad fictional person.  I didn’t have to look far to know what sadness feels like, but to express that feeli...

No wonder we tell children that gifts are randomly carried down chimneys. It seems like a reasonably accurate fantasy story.