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Welcome. I write fiction and nonfiction for magazines, work as a freelance writer / editor / journalist, and teach composition and fiction writing.

This blog is mostly dedicated to writing about politics and media, travel essays, creative non-fiction, discussions about books, the MFA experience, publishing, and work I’ve already placed in magazines. But I might write anything.

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Recent Posts:

  • Interview with the Vampire Reconsidered
  • A Room of One’s Own is Not a Requirement
  • The New Puritanism Isn’t Without Precedent
  • Convicting Kyle Rittenhouse Shouldn’t Be Easy
  • Mapping the Swamp

"I write it myself, edit it myself, censor it myself, publish it myself, distribute it myself, and spend time in prison for it myself."

— Vladimir Bukovsky

Ko-fi allows me to receive income from fans of my writing.  Anyone who clicks the link can support me with a with a 'coffee' (a small payment that is roughly equal to the price of a coffee).

"To educate is to seek meaning in everything. It is to teach others to seek the meaning of things. This means mixing the dreams of children and young people with the experience of adults and the elderly. This exchange must always take place, or else there can be no humanity because there would be no roots, no history, no promise, no growth, and no prophecy."

— Pope Francis, 5 June 20

My Tweets

"People love to read stories about the dreamer who nobody thinks will come to much, and who turns out to be a genius inventor, scientist, artist, or savior. Part of the reason such stories work is that we like to escape from the way the world really works, including the way it works in us. We all feel the pressure of the practical. The writer may sympathize with the dreamer but forget to sympathize with the dreamer-in-himself-or-herself."

— Janet Burroway

You, darkness, that I come from
I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world,
for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything-
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them!-
powers and people-
and it is possible a great presence is moving near me.
I have faith in nights.

— Rilke

Convicting Kyle Rittenhouse Shouldn’t Be Easy

Read my latest on Splice Today: https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/convicting-kyle-rittenhouse-shouldn-t-be-easy

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Posted on November 11, 2021Author Michael DavisCategories Civil Unrest, crime, Critical thinking, politics, Racism, Splice Today

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