Kirsten Oliphant

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24 Jun 2014

Not So (Small) Stories: Fourteenth Edition

Y'all. This week is crazy. This summer is crazy. Straight up Antoine Dodson climbing-in-your-windows cray-cray. What does one do when life gets crazy?

17 Jun 2014

Not So (Small) Stories: Thirteenth Edition

Welcome to Not So (Small) Stories, Edition Thirteen! This week I'm writing about  writing for your audience. Or, at least, with your audience of

10 Jun 2014

Not So (Small) Stories: Twelfth Edition

Though I grew up with a book constantly in hand and wrote my first novel at age eight, on my first high school English paper I got a D. Apparently I

03 Jun 2014

Not So (Small) Stories: Eleventh Edition

The first fight I remember having with my mom centered around hair. She had spent a painstaking amount of time curling mine. Only I didn't want curls,

31 May 2014

Memory’s Cocoon

"Mommy, what is that?" Sawyer holds out his hand, a small brown nut in his palm. Not the smooth shelled kind packaged neatly in the store, but rough

27 May 2014

Not So (Small) Stories: Tenth Edition

I watched as the man lowered her, screaming, down to the bottom floors of the rotting mansion. The rickety, rope-hung elevator still showed signs of

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