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To the Stars or To the Woods: Writing on Environmental Crisis

There is a certain balancing act to writing in and about the environmental crisis, one which — depending on your response — largely…

May 23, 2020

To the Stars or To the Woods: Writing on Environmental Crisis

May 23, 2020

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Curiosity Never Killed the Writer

Waiting: A Poem

I watched the birds today Their black brown mottled chirrups singing calling in abandon Over hills or lots that plane down to grottos…

May 14, 2020

Waiting: A Poem

May 14, 2020

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Curiosity Never Killed the Writer

Wolves: A Short Story

She has knowing green eyes with a swirl of blue and she speaks about wolves. She did, at least. She chewed on the inside of her mouth when…

May 6, 2020

Wolves: A Short Story

May 6, 2020

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From King of the Deep to Shade of the Screen: Or, how the Shark Became a Typecast Villain — and…

The following is a piece written in 2016. While some statistics or facts may now be slightly out-of-date, the general message of the piece…

May 5, 2020

From King of the Deep to Shade of the Screen: Or, how the Shark Became a Typecast Villain — and…

May 5, 2020

Alex Wichert

Hobbits, Karate, and a Man named Negan: Looking at Tropes in Narrative Fiction

I have a consistent, scathing aversion to clichés yet — and I know this is perplexing — a fondness for tropes. I find the latter…

May 4, 2020

Hobbits, Karate, and a Man named Negan: Looking at Tropes in Narrative Fiction

May 4, 2020

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Finding Comfort in a Dickensian World: How Charles Dickens offers Warmth and Security in times of…

Amid our current double vision of unity and isolation — a strange oscillation between community connectivity and solidarity, on the one…

May 3, 2020

Finding Comfort in a Dickensian World: How Charles Dickens offers Warmth and Security in times of…

May 3, 2020

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I Step, now, Upon new Shores: My Introduction

I wondered, at no insignificant length, how to best begin this introductory post. With what would I greet readers or algorithm-reliant…

May 2, 2020

I Step, now, Upon new Shores: My Introduction

May 2, 2020

Alex Wichert

Alex Wichert

A creative communicator experienced in writing, editing, and research. Focused on literature, politics, philosophy, history, sports, and current news.

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