Day 79: Send In The Dead Clowns

originally published March 19, 2012 Every so often, we here at 1000 Words, 1000 Days like to touch upon the issues. We feel that, as a popular website with dozens of readers (projected annually), we have an obligation to lend a voice to the issues that touch us all. Of course, I’m talking about suicidal […]

Day 8: Poe Pens A Pretty Putrid Play

originally published January 8, 2012 In December, 1835, Edgar Allen Poe’s footprint on the literary world was so fresh, pre-Victorian hipsters would have proudly nailed down this period as the time they started reading him, before “The Raven” topped the hit parade and everyone knew about him. He had won a minor prize for a […]