R.W.W. Greene’s story “They Build ‘Em Tough on Magna Mater” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 10 July 2020. I guess this story has its origins in the Kevin Bacon movie “Footloose”. There’s an awesome/ridiculous scene wherein Ren (Kevin Bacon) and the Jerk Guy are playing chicken on tractors. I won’t tell you how the tractor duel came out, but I took this scene into the context of my own semi-rural upbringing and came up …
George’s voice crackled over the headset radio. “You going tonight?” “Not hardly. Pa fined me hard last time. Claimed I forgot to plug Bessie back in and cost us a day’s work.” Zeke spit a glob of bright orange newbacco juice into a can he’d taped to the inside of the tractor’s cockpit. “I plugged her in. Just didn’t have time for a full recharge.” “Like your Pa would know anything about a day’s work,” …
Q: What do you think is the single most important quality for a good writer to possess?
A: A small, hard ego. Nothing big and puffed up. Nothing easily punctured. But a tiny kernel of confidence that can weather rejections and distractions and failure and keep them in the chair day after day pounding on the page.
R.W.W. Greene’s story “They Build ‘Em Tough on Magna Mater”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 10 July 2020.
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R.W.W. Greene is a New Hampshire, USA writer. His critically acclaimed, novel-length debut, The Light Years sprang forth from Angry Robot Books in February 2020.
rwwgreene.com, @rwwgreene
R.W.W. Greene’s story “They Build ‘Em Tough on Magna Mater”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 10 July 2020.
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R.W.W. Greene’s story “The Stars Don’t Lie” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 29 June 2018. “The Stars Don’t Lie” started out because I wanted to write about someone overcoming a disability. I teach high school, and most school days I visit a little coffee shop run by kids in the special-education program. It’s one of the best parts of my day. The idea of a human attending a centaur school came from that. Lesa, …
