18 episodes

In which I read various short stories and poems I’ve written. I’m branching out from the written word and trying new ways to get my work out there.

Slice of Life Stories Mark Paxson

    • Fiction

In which I read various short stories and poems I’ve written. I’m branching out from the written word and trying new ways to get my work out there.

    Killing Berthold Gambrel

    Killing Berthold Gambrel

    Announcing the publication of a new collection of short stories and reading the first few pages of the title story.

    • 19 min
    The Release of The Basement and Other Updates

    The Release of The Basement and Other Updates

    The Basement is published. What’s next.

    • 10 min
    Facilitation - How a Writing Prompt Can Lead to a Novella

    Facilitation - How a Writing Prompt Can Lead to a Novella

    The opening pages of my recently finished novella, along with a brief description of how it came to be.

    • 19 min
    Ghosts

    Ghosts

    An update of sorts and a reading of two poems about the recent mass shooting in Sacramento.

    • 15 min
    The Thunder Had Gone

    The Thunder Had Gone

    A wedding, a confused groom, a future mother-in-law and … well, things happen. This was a co-writing exercise with the incomparable Trent Lewin.

    • 26 min
    The Marfa Lights

    The Marfa Lights

    The opening pages of a story about a boy whose life turns upside down at the age of 14 when his dad dies and he discovers that everything he had believed was a lie.

    • 15 min

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