Michael Dean Clark is an author of fiction and literary nonfiction whose work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays and nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net consideration. It has appeared in Drunk Monkeys, Angel City Review, Pleiades, Punctuate, and The Jabberwock Review among others. He lives and writes in Southern California.
The human instinct to make lessons out of living is built around one constant: our bodies cling to life, even when that life is being lived by others. The need to live tears muscle from bone as certainly as it rips a metaphoric heart in two. Sometimes I wonder if it’s our wounds that bind […]
Michael Dean Clark explores the mistakes we make and opportunities we miss when we save our eulogies for the memorial service.
