Kendall Defoe
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Teacher, reader, writer, dreamer... I am a college instructor who cannot stop letting his thoughts end up on the page. No AI. No Fake Work. It's all me...
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The Night I Lost My Virginity
You have made it this far, so you deserve to know more. I have promised myself that any embarrassing moment I felt did not paint me in a positive light would be considered carefully…and then thrown into the pot. And why not? We all have done it, or we wish to have done it, or we want to do it in the near future as soon as possible. From the loneliest basement dweller to the most desperate housewife flipping through a Harlequin romance, it is on all of our minds. And this might offer some insight on how to get more of it in one’s own life and to actually enjoy it. After all the embarrassing other moments in my life that you have read about – the hot air balloon fiasco; the questionable reallocation of funds at the Vatican; my role in the breakup of Charles and Diana, etc. – this needs to be discussed.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Chapters
Ten Writers I Need to Recommend. Top Story - September 2023.
I seem to have stirred a pot a little too hard for some of you. In a previous piece entitled “Ten Writers I Can No Longer Read,” I listed the names of authors that I now avoid, with some fair reasons for my choices (I even included a list of other runners-up that could have made the list longer).
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Critique
We Sold Our Souls for RRSPs!
Rock and roll! Yeah, man!! We were all gonna rock hard!!! The bill's due when...? Damn... *(Note on the term RRSP: this is the Canadian Registered Retirement Savings Plan, something that we pay into for our future retirement; and we hope that we can still rock...)
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Poets
The Ringer
The Ringer… She really was one, y’know? The meaning of that word has changed a lot, but nothing else has. Just glad that I can talk to you about this and that you wanna know what the big deal was all about. I’m just glad that someone is going to remember one of my best friends.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Fiction
Ten Writers I Can No Longer Read
One of the things I have learned after many years of reading and writing is that you are allowed to dismiss what you once loved; you are allowed to give up on writers who no longer speak to you and have set up a barrier in your mind to enjoyment of their work. I do not mean that I care that deeply about their political, racial, psychological or emotional issues (the list of acceptable writers would be incredibly short if I dismissed the ones who did not reach such high standards). I am simply concerned with what is on the page and how it makes me react, as Vladimir Nabokov once stated, “between the shoulder blades” (where you really do feel the work).
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in BookClub
Waterman
“Always buy a new pen when you start a new job, Martin.” His mother’s voice was lingering in his thoughts as he walked down the street. He had been very lucky that Hally’s Stationers was still open at that time. Weekends had them closing earlier than usual and he almost forgot this as he stepped inside and heard the bell ring just behind him.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Horror
