For this Flasher story, I wanted to write about an infestation – yes, again. But this one’s in a different format compared to my published infestation story “Silver” (in the collection Coping Mechanism). For this piece of flash fiction, I wanted to show one side of a phone call rather than exploring the larger story, Since “Silver” is about insects, I debated between featuring snakes or rats in this one. And then I decided it
February was busy, stressful, and emotional, and I am ready to move on to March. But in the midst of everything that happened, Mark and I still made time for each other – this year was the first year we ever made solid plans for Valentine’s Day (as opposed to
[Insert cliché about how I can’t believe February is already over.] For the shortest month of the year, I sure don’t feel like this has been a short month. I’ve been busy, and only had 2 days in the entire month when I did not have some sort of schedule
When I look back at the stories from my experimental phase, it’s wild to see all of the different kinds of things I was writing. Not so surprisingly, I was using a lot of these short stories to work through my trauma and depression. “Dear Mattie” is the result of
My goal for 2023 is to only read horror and horror adjacent works in order to help me improve my own horror writing (and to learn more about my comp titles, of course). Since gaining access to my husband’s Audible account, that his increased the number of books that I
Despite all of the stressors that came my way, January was a very good month for me. I felt better about my career goals, I made great progress in my publishing, got lots of writing done, and just generally felt good about myself. I was actually excited about my birthday,
Another birthday done and over with. I honestly cannot believe that I am already at 32. Given my past mental health struggles, I did not expect to make it this long. But despite all the ups and downs, life has been good and I have big plans for 2023. This
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