By: Michael J. Greenwald Good Morning, Sleep Sunshine Devotees! This excerpt from my novel, The Rainbow Child, was created from a prompt on StoryStudio Chicago’s webzine Cooler By The Lake. ”Weekend Words 11/5/10.” Prompt #1 – “Meet The ‘Rents” Growing up had been an odd period for Zophie. Her mother was a sad, quiet woman, [...]
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- SSC Weekend Words Prompt (11/5/10): “A Very Special Weekend Words Segment: NaNoWriMo Edition”"
- SSC Weekend Words Prompt: “All My Children”
- SSC Weekend Words Prompt: “So This One Time, At BilBo’s Tavern”
- “Cooler By The Lake” Blog: “I’m Mad About…Jonathan Franzen – Doing Work”
- What Should We Pass Onto Our Children: Guns? Gardening? Geometry?
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SSC Weekend Words Prompt: “All My Children”
Continued from StoryStudio Chicago’s webzine Cooler By The Lake. “All My Baby Mommas” –Teaser– INT. Apartment in the South Side of Chicago – Night Jack sits on ratty couch, eating Cheetos, watching Comedy Central, laughing hysterically. Door bell rings. Grunting, struggling to get up, bits of food dropping off of him, Jack stumbles to intercom. [...]
“Cooler By The Lake” Blog: “I’m Mad About…Jonathan Franzen – Doing Work”
Hello, loyal, Sleep Sunshine followers. My anxiously-awaited debut blog on StoryStudio Chicago’s “Cooler By the Lake” blog has landed! The weekly segment is called, “I’m Mad About…” and this week I discussed Jonathan Franzen’s use of language and syntax to elevate the art of his literature. I also discovered where Oprah and I share common [...]
What Should We Pass Onto Our Children: Guns? Gardening? Geometry?
Sunday, August 8 2010 By: Sleep Sunshine Over the last several weeks, I’ve had a similar conversation with many different people concerning the same topic. What should we be passing onto our children? This topic has been rattling around in my brain for quite a while now, considering while finishing my current novel, The Rainbow [...]
“The Kids Are All Right” Is Much More Than An All Right Movie
By: Sleep Sunshine Judging by the box office (and one should, never ever ever, judge by the box office), Lisa Cholodenko‘s alt. family drama, The Kids Are All Right, is irrelevant in the face of Inception‘s nearly 143 million dollar box office accumulation. In four weeks of release (one more than Inception), the movie has [...]
“Weeping Underwater Looks A Lot Like Laughter”: Strange Title, Promising Debut
By: Sleep Sunshine Michael J. White’s first novel begins, “On our debut night in Des Moines, Nicholas Parsons murdered a high school senior in the hotel room directly beneath us. The following morning we received a call from the front desk receptionist announcing a cancellation of the complimentary breakfast buffet, due to the conversion of [...]
What Does A Writer Look Like? A Sleep Sunshine Contest (Part 1 of How Ever Many It Takes…)
AS POSTED ON THE PARKING LOT CONFESSIONAL: By: Sleep Sunshine Image is everything. I don’t know who I heard that from, but it’s true, especially in the Modern Marketplace. And (fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at, and possibly how much of a Control Freak you are) creating, developing, and marketing an image [...]
Sleep Sunshine Reads “I Am Lane” @ 42 Degrees N. Latitude
Hello Loyal Guests! Today, I have something special for you. A video. Of me. Reading. My. Poetry. Thursday, May 20th 2010, Story Studio Chicago hosted a “Writers Read Showcase” at 42 Degrees N. Latitude in Chicago. I read my poem, “I Am Lane.” Here it is, in all its twisted, blurry glory. Thanks for watching.
