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What I’m Working On
- Nightly Plots & the Novel 1 Project
- Relocating to NYC (April)
- Nightly Chops & Tum Tum Tales
What I’m Doing
Nightly Chops
The Sparrows’ Tale
by Asher Black on March 1, 2013
in The Tree of Breaking

Sometimes the most horrible things that happen to us don’t show up in theatres or along ... ∞

Forever Car
by Asher Black on February 23, 2013
in The Tree of Neglect

The car isn’t routinely maintenanced. It is never booked or reserved. Its passengers never disembark. No ... ∞

She Knocks in Your Mind
by Asher Black on February 19, 2013
in The Tree of Desolation

The knock is the same as the one in your dreams – it’s a knock. It ... ∞

Winding Up
by Asher Black on February 16, 2013
in The Tree of Grief

The crowd did what it always did – it cheered. On this day, it cheered like ... ∞

The Hand That Makes the Cut
by Asher Black on February 10, 2013
in The Tree of Breaking

A Story for the Fallen: One man stays away from windows and puts his back to ... ∞

The Sensei
by Asher Black on February 8, 2013
in The Tree of Neglect

After intensity, especially the kind that’s hostile to oneself or someone else, there can be a ... ∞

Things We’ve Heard Before
by Asher Black on February 2, 2013
in The Tree of Breaking

Rewrite of a story from Oct 29, 2006 We had a large family together, ten children ... ∞

Mass Silence
by Asher Black on February 1, 2013
in The Tree of Desolation

Have you ever learned so many names at once that you forgot your own for a ... ∞

Steps Toward Breathing
by Asher Black on January 30, 2013
in The Tree of Regret

You look down a spiral stair, hear nothing, see nothing, but feel it breathing there… In ... ∞
My Favorite Chops
1. Eagle's Wings & Unicorns
2. Paying for Your Soul Up Front

See [all the chops].
Forest Park
Forest Park isn’t the original name of an urban forest occupying more than a mile at the old edge of the city... [more]
My Les Miserables

Latest Tum Tum Tales

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Recent Posts
Why Severed Heads Actually Matter

Why I Chose New York City

12 Reasons I am Not a Writer

Journeys in Alternate Reality

I Want More: Beyond Being a Real Boy

Rescuing Art from Ideology

Why I’m Like This – Bizarre Life of Fiction

Mercy and Marigolds
Images I’m Seeing
Books I’m Reading
Current Soundtracks
Guiding Voices
Aristotelian: The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
The Master: Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness conscious. – Jung
Me Too: I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say. – Flannery O’Connor
Someone Said It: Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing. – William Faulkner
Author of the Seven Lamps: "All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness." - John Ruskin
My Literary Icon: "No one can tell you what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't." - Stephen King
A Man I Adore: "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
Asher’s Muffler Wallpaper
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