Fred Bubbers
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Writer Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Memoir | Criticism I block followers with blank profiles. No DMs.
A precisely targeted lightning bolt on Sunday would definitely make me reconsider my agnosticism.
I'm so tired of hearing ignorant assholes say "We are a republic, not a democracy."
Life in the country. On the other hand, they're preparing the fields for planting. All the windows are shut and the Yankee Candles are lit.
Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” first published in The New Yorker in 1997, is one of those rare pieces of fiction that does what only the best literature can: it makes you feel the full weight of a life you have never lived. fredbubbers.com/2026/03/10/g... #language #literature #shortstories
The Body Remembers: Sense Memory and The Art of Prose Fiction fredbubbers.com/2026/03/08/t... #language #literature #writing #fiction #shortstories #novels #education
The Pitch: #writing #fiction #shortstories #language #literature #publishing
The Road Not Taken: Parallel Narratives in The Remains of the Day fredbubbers.com/2018/06/09/t... #language #literature #writing #novels #education
In The Beginning…Jim McCarthy’s Dynamics of Software Development subversivetechie.com/2025/10/02/i... #technology #projectmanagement #agile #software #leadership
Utopia, American Style The history of American utopian experiments. Each generation imagines a better way to live, withdraws into a self-contained community, and struggles against the stubborn realities of human nature and the environment. fredbubbers.com/2025/12/06/u...
No Direction Home fredbubbers.com/2025/11/16/n... #fiction #language #literature #shortstories #writing
Come Together fredbubbers.com/2025/08/26/6... #fiction #language #literature #shortstories #writing
"Reunion" I didn’t cry at my mother’s funeral. I was fifteen at the time, and the ordeal of seeing her suffer for the last year of her life had left me emotionally paralyzed. Continue reading: fredbubbers.com/2025/11/18/r... #fiction #language #literature #writing #shortstories
No Direction Home fredbubbers.com/2025/11/16/n... #fiction #language #literature #shortstories
Come Together fredbubbers.com/2025/08/26/6... The year that Miriam and I turned fifteen, my mother died in Saint Charles Hospital in a room overlooking the harbor. It was early May and there were campus riots and teargas on the TV... #fiction #shortstories #language #literature
Writing With Five Senses fredbubbers.com/2020/03/28/w... #language #literature #writing #education
Last September fredbubbers.com/2025/09/19/l... #fiction #shortstories #writing #war #language #literature #reading
The Art of the Novella: Tumble Home by Amy Hempel fredbubbers.com/2025/10/07/t... #language #literature #fiction #writing #novella #education