The Outer Margins

Scraps and notes about my curse of writing stories.

Dear Santa...

Marta thought I was the one eating the cookies every Christmas. I thought it was her. For five years, neither of us had ever asked the other. Until the day a question from our daughter, Emma, planted a seed of doubt in my mind.

December 22, 2025


On bad days

That is, how I deal with the days on which I am emotionally void.

December 16, 2025


Lessons from an old manuscript

Or why even old dead projects may teach us something

December 05, 2025