Michael Davis’ Writing Expedition Newsletter

καπνός μαντεία

That’s the thing with bucket lists.

Oct 12 • 

Michael Davis

On Loneliness

I finished a short story draft this morning before dawn.

Oct 5 • 

Michael Davis

A Story About the Body

A Story About the Body

Oct 1 • 

Michael Davis

September 2025

Midnight Thoughts: Crimes, Mistakes, and the Spaces Between Us

The dancer from the dance.

Sep 25 • 

Michael Davis

A Reason for the Screaming

“Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; in this love, you are like a knife with which I explore myself.”

Sep 18 • 

Michael Davis

Allow Yourself to be Hurt

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is…

Sep 14 • 

Michael Davis

Love

I've got a lot on my mind these days.

Sep 12 • 

Michael Davis

Words and the Reunification of Words

College.

Sep 9 • 

Michael Davis

What if?

My fellow fiction writers, I’m not asking you to accept this, just to entertain it: what if you engaged in less self-promotion and diverted a little…

Sep 7 • 

Michael Davis

August 2025

Perforce, the Library

Standing at a crossroads in a garden of forking paths.

Aug 9 • 

Michael Davis

June 2025

Government Cheese

There’s only one way to write a novel.

Jun 3 • 

Michael Davis

March 2025

Ensō

I wanted to know the truth about life.

Mar 29 • 

Michael Davis