The sentence is the building block of story, and of course a first sentence carries an extraordinary burden. We found that, as we read through these opening lines, our affection for each story was re-awakened. Something of the full work is there, almost like a miniature model of the whole. Maybe it’s the voice of the protagonist, the hint of a critical relationship, the introduction of a distinctive conceit. Reading them all together, we are deeply appreciative—and a little amazed—that we had the opportunity to publish them all in these first ten months of Stoneslide.
Read More...Thank You
As we near the year’s end, we wish to thank you, readers, for spending time here reading the awesome stories by the writers we’ve been lucky enough to work with. We also want to thank those writers; in the coming days we will revisit work that has graced these electronic pages since Stoneslide began on […]
Read More...Stoneslide Looks Back
With the year coming to a close, it’s natural to take a look back and assess what’s gone right and what’s gone wrong. Who are we to fight human nature? We’ve tried before and learned that it’s a bad idea. Especially when human nature could also be called “our wives.”
Read More...Choose the Stoneslide Gift Assist that Warms Your Heart the Most
Go to our Facebook page and personally vote for your preferred Stoneslide gift! Pick from: A) Kringle Sutra B) Rudolph the Red-Cheeked Sobriety Buddy C) Silent Night and Day D) Suggest your own idea of a gift for Stoneslide to design. Perhaps we should have added “all of the above” as a choice, since each […]
Read More...Stoneslide and Our Facebook Page
If you’re a friend of ours on Facebook, you may or may not know that Facebook has recently changed the algorithms it uses to distribute updates, and you might not be receiving all of our goodies in your news feed. We want you to get all the goodies. All you need to do is go to our Facebook page and hover your cursor over the “Liked” button, and then click on “Add to Interests Lists.” Thanks for being a friend to our venture.
Read More...Second Guest Editor: The Rejection Generator Project
A demonically horrible method to attain literary greatness is what one can find in the latest rejection letter in the Guest Editor series of Stoneslide’s Rejection Generator Project. Our second Guest Editor, novelist Max R. Tomlinson, submitted a rejection so brutal that when it was fed into the Generator not only did it come back […]
Read More...First Guest Editor Joins Rejection Generator Project
Feeling particularly boisterous? Feeling confident or otherwise good about yourself? Beware. You’re on a track to serious letdown. Let us help you. Go to the Rejection Generator Project and send yourself the letter called “Up in Flames.” This scorching missive was fed into the Rejection Generator by our first guest editor. It was so mean-spirited […]
Read More...Happy Authors Day
Mothers Day has come and gone. Fathers Day, which around here coincides with explosions of roses (we remain neutral on what that says about the relative merits of mothers and fathers), has also passed. You’d think that we’d be thanked out. That the old gratitude gauge would be resting on empty. But we are ready […]
Read More...The Rejection Generator Project
In the past couple of weeks we’ve had several requests from editors and writers who wanted to participate in The Rejection Generator Project. By all means, participate! We checked with Sylvester, who said, sure, feeding more raw material into the Generator should be okay as long as we keep close watch. However, he cautioned that […]
Read More...Rejectees Rejoice
The Rejection Generator has gone beyond even what we imagined it could accomplish. It is helping people examine their deepest motivations and set new directions for their lives. Thank you for your help. I have been feeling this way as a writer for years and having a print confirmation of it allows me to move […]
Read More...A Note from a Rejectee
We have received so many grateful responses since we released The Rejection Generator. Here is just one writer’s story of how the generator helped her.
Read More...Ennobling Acronyms
A gentle reader has pointed out a serious omission in our recent story, “Colloquium Defines What Is Human.” Given that it is now established that humans are distinguished within the animal kingdom by adept use of acronyms and initialisms, we have failed to fully exercise our humanity by not applying this distinctively human mode of […]
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