“Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind” – Douglas MacArthur Grammar is the mortar of the English language we use when building meaning through the use of words, sentences, and paragraphs. For many people, it is such a powerful tool as to be…
Month: January 2025
Against the Grain: Four Authors that Transgress Grammar
A Trick of the Light
by Zachary Robert Long (2026 words, estimated reading time: 10 minutes)
The woods are darker now than they were this time last week. This disturbs her. Something she can’t quite put a finger on. The way it feels like every thing is always changing? Getting away from her? She wants it all to stay the same, her deepest wish is to freeze time. To hold her…