Category Archives: Dreaming on Paper

Pure Flux: The Writer Revisits His Murdered Darlings

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Peter Selgin

Like Depression-era mothers, we fiction writers hate throwing things away. Instead of hoarding used Saran Wrap and dunked tea bags for rainy days, we squirrel away used words: titles, phrases, sentences, paragraphs—sometimes whole chapters or scenes—stuff that never made it … Continue reading →

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Leaving This Place

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Peter Selgin

Soon I will leave this place. No more house shaped like a big A. No more gentle walks over spiky pine cones down the gentle slope to the gray, lonesome dock. No more swimming across the lake and back. No … Continue reading →

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Hewlett-Packard

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Peter Selgin

Corvallis, Oregon, 1980. 4:30 a.m. Too tired to go home and sleep, you wander with your guitar to the park, a square block of grass in the middle of the town. Under a full moon the grass glows. At the … Continue reading →

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Memories for Mom

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Peter Selgin

I think of growing up and remember all kinds of things. I remember our house on the hill, and big willow trees along the driveway, and all those magical places in the woods and fields that we turned into “forts.” … Continue reading →

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