One of my reasons for changing my website over to WordPress was to make it easier to include pictures in posts. So, look! Pictures! Behold my tiny trees! I backed a Kickstarter project called Pawpaw: The story of America’s forgotten fruit. One of my rewards was a packet of […]
Kickstarter
I did a short interview on Nayad Monroe’s website about writing and fortune telling and my story in What Fates Impose. I also got some unrelated good news–my story Broken Eggs has been accepted for Dark Bits. Woo hoo!
Interview! And Story Sale!
I haven’t been posting or updating much because I’ve been working on switching my website from GeekLog to WordPress. That’s done now, with a minimal loss of content. I did lose a few posts, they were mostly about ongoing things, that I’m happy to remind you about here. ^_^ The […]
New Website Design!
For Sabrina, to Her Guys. Prana floated above the silty ocean bottom, shifting her skin color to match its color and visual texture. She spotted a shrimp scuttling along, but she didn’t have time to stop for a snack. Her Teacher had sent for her. She […]
Cuttlefish Skin
Ronnie took a deep breath. She reminded herself that she shouldn’t be nervous. That Jim was her best friend. And that if she waited, stupid Kristen might ask him first and ruin everything. "So, prom." Jim nodded. "The very first on Mars." "Want to go with […]
A Prom Princess of Mars
For Rona Trina scraped the last can of beans into a pot and lit the sailboat’s tiny antique stove. Alan came down the steps and shook his head. "No fish. Again." He sighed. "There should be fish." He hung his fishing pole on its hook, under one […]
Two By Sea
For Savannah Angry, frozen snowflakes hissed against Derrick’s window. Cold seeped through cracks in his Dad’s stupid, sagging house and gathered around his ankles. He pulled his afghan off the bed and pulled it to his chin. The scratchy yarn smelled like gingerbread and sage incense. Like […]
Finding Christmas
The adults all succumb to the sleep at the same time. Our parents slump, boneless, to the floor. Teachers sag onto their desks, cashiers fall next to their registers, bike couriers tumble sideways and roll. The smallest children sleep as well. Babies curl on their mothers’ breasts, soft […]
We Wait, and We Hope
Stanley initiated a standard scan and watched the numbers scroll across his screen. "That’s not right," he muttered. He stopped the test and restarted it. He stared at the image on the screen. His mind drifted. He reached forward, and jumped when his fingers hit smooth plastic. […]
Feeding the Master
For Dylan, Kiefer and Lleyton I spun in a fast, uncontrolled circle, my mouth guard half-out, my visor cracked, and my own blood floating in front of me in a spray of perfectly round orbs. Gloved hands pulled the heavy, black rubber ball out of […]