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Writers like to pretend that the work arrives by discipline alone. Sit at a desk every morning. Sweat. Stack pages. Accept rejection as your sacrament. Keep the faith. All of that is true, and also completely beside the point. Because every once in a while, the sky splits open and something not-quite-human crawls out. The year when the stories don’t just appear—they insist. The year when language is not an instrument in your hands but a living thing that wraps around your thr

Every character I have ever written or portrayed on stage has never belonged to me. That’s the secret. We build from scraps, molding habits, memories, desires into something new. And then hand them over to strangers who will decide, confidently, what they mean. A character is always read twice: once by the author, and again by everyone else. The first creates, the second dissects. Somewhere in between those two readings the truth gets smudged - sometimes valiantly, other time

I didn’t plan to write an entire body of work in a year. I only wanted to see if the soul could survive the page. Back in April, I had a loose idea for a story about faith and failure. I thought it would be one piece, maybe two. Then, something in me broke open — or perhaps tightened — and for the next several months, I wrote with the velocity of someone trying to outpace a confession. By November, I was staring at more stories than I knew what to do with. They weren’t drafts

Kevin Lewis’s Willy’s Wonderland  (2021) is easily dismissed as grindhouse schlock: Nicolas Cage versus murderous animatronics in a dilapidated family entertainment center. Yet beneath the blood and neon lies a startling parable about Christian life in a corrupted world. The film does not present Cage’s character as Christ himself, but rather as the model of what a Christian is called to be — steadfast, obedient, and unyielding in the face of evil. The nameless Janitor arrive