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Playing With Chess

Playing With Chess by JFM Chess is a knight's game. Chess calls for action and speed. It can be daunting – you might lose respect to a 12 year old with a F in math – but it can also be the best challenge you've ever faced. True, games can be played with children, but, like playing hearts, there are few exact games. This is not chinese Go; chess is formulated to have some of the same moves. In Go, it's been said the same move is impossible. But in chess, the same move is possible.

A WORKING MADNESS, NOVEL -- BIKE COOL, BANANA REPUBLIC VEST

WORDPRESS A WORKING MADNESS VEST IN, BANANA REPUBLIC, YELLOW We Were Gods By Jacob Malewitz Act 1: Out on a Trip, A Brother’s Los (t) (s), Working on a Job Ch.1 They could see me. I mean some of them could. You see the world plays in extremes. This is just a story of that world, one where a small roman god took power, built madness, all in the hopes of finding something.  The doctor isn’t listening. Quentin T; I can sense that. I once heard a voice. I was once a man. I passed through a doorway. “You’re the one.” But it was in a different language, yet I understood. Quentin T. is a different man, perhaps with his voices he’s insane. He speaks regular talk, the kind that that has meaning. I am Janus, keeper of the gate. This story will chronicle Quentin T., a hero who fought the devil throughout his life, laughing at angels and demons on a regular basis. His is a mad story for me to write about. But I must write it. For in writing you embolden the ...

The Short Story and the Essay

Go With Your Notebook Early The Short Story and the Essay    By Jacob Malewitz Where does the short story end and begin? You must call building. You are always building with short stories. You are always selling with short stories. You must always call the balance with non-fiction, especially creative non-fiction. If you call creative non-fiction, you call the essay. If you call the essay, you call the book. If you call the book, you call profit. Profit is fleeting. Hope is not. How much do you want to make off your short story? What can you get from writing this short story? You get broken essay hope; you get some fear; you get some demons calling you out to write endlessly. You can experience emotion far better with writing than with television.