Is this Flasher story based on real intrusive thoughts that I have had? Maybe. Maybe not. You’ll never know. But don’t worry – as always, the cat is okay. The human… Not so much. ~ ~ ~ “Such a lovely lady,” he said. “Beautiful lady.” The cat brushed up against his legs, lifting her head up to his outstretched palm, purring. “Oh, you want scritches?” She was a beautiful cat with a smooth, calico coat.
This one is old. My short story offering for the month is from deep in the vault and was written back in 2009. In one of my first year English classes in university – one of the mandatory ones they made everyone take, regardless of your field of study –
As I finished up with my non-fiction reading from January and started onto the fiction I had queued up, I noticed another unintentional trend forming. As I prioritized books I learned about from some of my non-fiction reads, as well as titles I prioritized from my TBR, I noticed that
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
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