by Jennifer Stevenson The first time my mother read Kipling’s KIM aloud to me and my brother, we were both under two years old. We understood maybe one word in ten, even with her footnotes. But my mother was a … Continue reading
Daily Archives: February 29, 2012
By Linda Nagata (cross-posted from Hahví.net) Long, long ago I read a short story that still sticks with me. I have no idea who wrote it, or where I read it, but it involved a colony of human telepaths who’d … Continue reading
Writers are expected to know the parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and articles. If nouns and verbs are the basic building materials of the sentence, adjectives and adverbs act as ornamentation intended to enhance. Occasionally, writers fail to … Continue reading