Jayde Layne @LayneJayde

Had a great time with the other trainees and interns at @SuperstitionRev on saturday! Looking forward to hanging out again!

@SuperstitionRev interns/trainees had a blast playing board games yesterday!

Also @SuperstitionRev are trainee interns still allowed to submit for issues or would that be considered a conflict of interest?

Excited to be getting closer to starting my internship @SuperstitionRev hoping it'll give me more experience when it comes to submitting writing to magazines :D

This year there is going to be a literary fair at Desert Nights Rising Stars! It’s open to the public, so come say hi! @piper_center @asuEnglish @SuperstitionRev #desertnightsrisingstars

Today was a Day of Many Acceptances. So exciting to start growing Issue 23 to launch May 1. We will be reading for 2 more weeks. Submit here: superstitionreview.submittable.com/submit

Why is it that my brain thinks the best writing time is past midnight? #writerslife #WritingCommunity

Currently I have three ideas for novels, which are: lesbian vampires fallen angels mermaid witch Methinks I have a think for magical realism :P

I think this story could have an impact on today's culture, especially of the whole "why do you listen if it makes you upset," like why do we listen to the news if it makes us upset? Well, because we have to to know what's happening. Irene didn't have to listen. Thoughts? #ENG218

@KnightonMakenna I think it's meant to emphasize that this is a normal radio now, and now they aren't listening in on other people's problems, they're having their own. #ENG218

Did anyone else feel that the poem about potato soup seemed lonely? It was about someone cooking with their family using technology to connect, but then they end up eating alone anyway. #ENG218

@KnightonMakenna I think it gives it a feeling of not being quite over, like there's more to the poem than we can see, and I think that kind of reflects the train itself, since it's always moving.

In Casil, I think some of the points he brings up are valid about being careful with using gene therapy and making sure we don't use them as a new yardstick for discrimination. But at the same time it almost feels like fearmongering. Anyone else think the same? #ENG218

@KnightonMakenna I think he's trying to warn us not to overdo it, not to let the gene therapy's be used for things like cosmetic and small changes. I think what he's getting at is that being imperfect is what makes us human.

In the King reading, I'm wondering who the hero of the story is supposed to be. Is the main character a hero from "saving" Belinda and Jon from an abusive household, or is he a monster for coveting what wasn't his and replacing his real family? #ENG218

@KnightonMakenna I don't think it is a happy ending. How do we even know it's real? It could be a trick or a simulation for all he knows. In the story he says Roger broke things because they weren't his, but then he does the same thing when he makes his family belinda and jon.

In Steinbecks work, I'm wondering why he put so much emphasis on Elisa being "strong". Is it in relation to the "womens work vs. mens work" theme that seems to pick up at the end? #ENG218

@KnightonMakenna I think it does, I think the setting establishes the tone of the story, the sort of slow farm life kind of story where someone throwing out flowers matters and the debate between mens work vs womens work is relevant.

@KylieVacala Yeah, the fact that it says its not an easy dance and the use of the word deadly, and the sensation of smelling whisky on their fathers breath all make it seem more threatening than loving. #ENG218

In My Papas Waltz, am I the only one that feels a certain foreboding to the poem? Perhaps hinting at an abusive relationship with his father? #ENG218