A Bear with Violet Gums

Or an author with his hands on the ejector handle.

Photo by Todd Diemer on Unsplash

For forty years, give or take a decade, I believed there were certain magic maneuvers a writer could conjure up to enhance the readability of his or her work. So this thorn of reality sticking into my creativity, I’m finding too sharp for such noble ambitions. I’m not an intellectual, having failed every exam in English language when a…