Reading
Wes Lydon
The Garden Path Sentence

Sometimes a sentence leads you to a dead end. You are confused, and that's ok. This time you can blame the sentence.

The Garden Path Sentence
What Lydon is Thinking
Wes Lydon
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, You Know?

Students are talking about Buffalo. Word is they buffalo Buffalo buffalo, which is weird for Buffalo buffalo to do, when you consider that Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, You Know?
Writing
Wes Lydon
The Death of Juan Reyoaso

A short story written by me about a decade ago. 

The Death of Juan Reyoaso
Writing
Wes Lydon
How To Write a Bad... Short Story

I wrote a bad short story. This is how.

How To Write a Bad... Short Story
What Lydon is Thinking, Reading
Wes Lydon
Syntax Has Feelings Too

In "The River Nemunas," Anthony Doerr captures what it means to be numb and alone in the world not in the quality of his words, but in their quantity. 

Syntax Has Feelings Too

You Do This Wrong