PinnedRyan LatiniThe Key Confirms a PrisonI don’t always lose my car keys, but every time I do, it feels like I always lose them. I have to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. I…Aug 42Aug 42
Ryan LatiniWHY CLARITY TERRIFIES ME AS A WRITERI envy the writer who conceived of the simple imperative written on the packaging of moist towelettes: “Tear open packet and use.” Kraft’s…Aug 19Aug 19
Ryan LatiniSnakeskin BootsYou sleep facing inward, Fear of a mooring-thick rattle snake Springing from its coil Keeps you from the edge of the bed.Aug 12Aug 12
Ryan LatiniAristotle and Addiction: The Rhetorical AddictThere are many parallels in Aristotle’s principals of rhetoric and the rhetoric of addiction, addictive thinking, and recovery. Having been…Aug 9Aug 9
Ryan LatiniWriting During Covid-19: 10 Haikus from Quarantine and a Selfish RegretHey #WritingCommunity and #ReadingCommunity. Selfishly, I thought quarantine would be a writing Shangri-La. Perhaps, despite the tragedy…Jul 25, 2020Jul 25, 2020
Ryan LatiniLove Notes for Modest Young MenRussian blood feuds. Online-dating Organ thieves. I’m thrilled to announce the publication of 7 of my short stories in this single…Dec 16, 2019Dec 16, 2019
Ryan LatiniLegal Adult Fiction: Fiction in Just 18 Words #8; MissDaddy’s computer shows where Mommy’s phone goes. It hasn’t moved in three days. He hasn’t told Investigator Wallace.Sep 25, 2018Sep 25, 2018
Ryan LatiniLegal Adult Fiction: Fiction in Just 18 Words #7: BabysatSaid I’d watch the baby. Found her piggy bank. Sweats. Shivers. Back in twenty. The baby’ll be fine.Sep 19, 2018Sep 19, 2018
Ryan LatiniLegal Adult Fiction: Fiction in Just 18 Words #6. THIEFI punched Jonathan and stole his tooth. I got a dollar from the Tooth Fairy. I like Jonathan.Sep 12, 2018Sep 12, 2018
Ryan LatiniLegal Adult Fiction: Fiction in Just 18 Words #5. No, I’m the ManHe-Man was my favorite action figure. He fell in the sewer but bobbed happily. Betrayed, I left him.Aug 10, 2018Aug 10, 2018