Abraham Kim @abrahamKim
Hipsters talk more than Boomers these days.
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Marc Love was surprised to learn that Drew had a phD fromΒ
Cambridge
. Not because Drew didn't seem smart but because he was here now in America working as a cashier at a grocery store. Love wanted to ask how he came to do that but didn't want to...
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Abe's Blog
Fear of change
A common pitfall in
storytelling
is not choosing to tell a story that leaves the character changed forever. I was sitting outside feeling summer breeze under a tree when this thought came to me:
We fear changing our characters forever because we fear it in our own lives. We want to...
We fear changing our characters forever because we fear it in our own lives. We want to...
Somebody who works at Balloon House Magazine
Dreams of Flesh
Jeannie was talented. And incredibly beautiful. When such beauty is paired with even a modicum of talent the halo effect swindles you into hyperbolizing all non tangible assets about them. But no matter how much of that fallacy I was victim to, from an objective stance
Jeannie Hammond
just really...
200 Words a Day
What makes a legend?
Tim Subiaco
will always be a legend to me. He was one of the rare members who wrote fiction everyday. Almost all the other people couldn't manage it. They either were like me and got stuck by the allure of writing the more easy nonfiction or they just stopped showing...
Abe's Blog
Composition of my writing
I joinedΒ
200WAD
intending to write fiction. What got me into it was seeing people like
Tim Subiaco
writing a novella in public and being blown away. I'd never seen such a thing happening in public before and never had considered the possibility. Writing until then I'd always considered a...
Somebody who works at Balloon House Magazine
Boomer
The other day I felt just how old I was. In a major city I wouldn't be old, more middle aged for working at a media company, but at
Balloon House
I was definitely the boomer. Everybody else was either fresh out of college or still in it. Our budget...
Flash Fiction Practice
Killing an afternoon
It was after dropping off Sal for his afternoon Chemistry class that she had a day to spare. Just a few hours more honestly, but hours in the afternoon seemed to stretch on for her these days. Mornings and evenings would fly by but the liminal space of sunny, summer...
Flash Fiction Practice
How to tell if you're a player, like John Zabka
I never was jealous of an artist making it. Initially I saw this as a sign that I was a true artist. Now I think the opposite.Β
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A true artist hates to see another artist gain recognition while they remain in the shadows. My complacency with remaining in the...
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A true artist hates to see another artist gain recognition while they remain in the shadows. My complacency with remaining in the...
Flash Fiction Practice
The dream of becoming a 9-5 artist, revisited after meeting with John Zabka
There had been a time when I was throwing back cups of stale coffee at the diner thinking that I would one day become an artist. I mean I had already thought I was one but I what I was imagining was one day being somebody who got paid a...
Abe's Blog
Proud
as reply to Early Days...
After years of bickering about the lameness of employment and exalting the virtues of entrepreneurship and infinite leverage, I'm proud to learn that Seun has begun a job as Product Manager.
I'll always reflect back at our many conversations as wantrepreneurs with a big smile. A smile because even though...
I'll always reflect back at our many conversations as wantrepreneurs with a big smile. A smile because even though...
Flash Fiction Practice
The diner that John Zabka brought me to as Lighthouse in the dark
Well given that John was an artist by trade and not a chef, I really couldn't sanely feel upset about him not cooking for me. But that's how it was. Maybe it'd be more precise to say that I was let down, having spent the weeks leading up to our...