Stephen Kastner
Stephen Kastner writes essays, science fiction, memoir, poetry, and is currently working on a screenplay and novel about his Quaker ancestor Thomas Maule, who was arrested for defending the wise women accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692. He leads the Green Mountain Writers Group in Vermont and creates digital media professionally as DesignWise Studios.
Follow his Antediluvian Attitudes on Substack: https://stephenkastner.substack.com
Thanks for generating one of the best Friday discussions on records. I really enjoyed watching my own opinions shift and…
On 12/2 Open Genre | “May 13” by Liz Teuber
The dangers of memoir exist in how an author is expected to address all of the possible triggering that might…
On 12/2 Open Genre | “Aftermath” by Stephen Kastner
To be clear, it was certainly not my first sexual encounter, it was however the first time I experienced sexual…
On 12/2 Open Genre | “Aftermath” by Stephen Kastner
I think you have successfully refined this story in the areas where it was lacking; the lovemaking, the discovery of…
On 11/18 Open Genre | The Light from the Bay Chapters 20-31 by Al Uris
These two chapters have the good-old movie pacing that I have seen in other readings, full of energy and quite…
On 11/4 Open Genre | Corona Ch 43-44 by Millie Eidson
The opening 2 pages' characters are so well painted and the story so captivating. The entire story is a poetic…
On 10/28 Open Genre | With the Swans by Matthew Tratt
By the way, California enacted Senate Bill 145 to give convicted pedophiles protections from registering as a sex offender in…
On 10/21 Open Genre | Four Freedoms by Stephen Kastner
It looks like you read the 2nd draft. There's now a 4th draft that you probably aren't interested in reading…
On 10/21 Open Genre | Four Freedoms by Stephen Kastner
So much that "science" simply cannot comprehend... In 1981, Harvard Medical School researcher Herbert Benson traveled to Tibet to meet…
On 9/16 Open Genre | Kuchisabishii by Stephen Kastner
I believe we are living in an illusion, Plato's Cave, a dive bar I hang out in, not by choice.…
On 9/16 Open Genre | Kuchisabishii by Stephen Kastner