The Glass Frog

news and opinion killed the fiction star

The fact of the matter is that I’m just not getting anything out of spending so much time with the news. I’m not a better or more functional human being because of it. I’m not building a community or being pulled into an existing one. Nothing new has been created. I’ve simply been consuming another…
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Reasons to Keep Writing: Emma

Moments that make the struggle worth it I met Emma at a book signing at Rediscovered Books in downtown Boise. She didn’t immediately come over to my table; she had to be coaxed over by her mother, who’d spotted The Glass Frog from across the room and then spent a few minutes debating whether or not…
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Baby Steps

Janine hated the stepladder. Hating an inanimate object was irrational, she knew, bordering on nonsensical, but that didn’t matter. She glared at it from her spot at the kitchen counter. It stood in the corner, folded up, put away, ready to be used when her husband came home. And he would use it. He would insist…
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The Big Debut

“I can’t believe I’m going through with this.” Ben had gone to his first drag show back in college. It was eye opening. He wasn’t attracted to the performers in a sexual way; rather, he was in awe of the performers’ unfaltering confidence. It was, in it’s own way, incredibly macho.
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