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
Between my social anxiety disorder and my need to be in control of my own work, beta reading was something I was hesitant to have to deal with on my publishing journey. The logical portion of my brain knows that it is extremely helpful to get the feedback of others,
February 15th. The day after Valentine’s Day. The day where chocolate is discounted (and hard to find if you hit the store’s a fraction of a second too late). And it’s also the perfect day to share a “romantic” story as part of my monthly short story series on this
I’ve done something petty. Now, before I get into the details, I will say that nothing about the situation surprises me. When I started my self publishing journey, I did my research. I know all about the struggles of publishing genre fiction, and how some publications/markets prefer literary fiction. I
As you may remember, the final book of my 2021 reading list was going to have to do double duty as the first book of my 2022 reading list. Simply put, Dune is a beast and there’s no way I was going to finish it in time for the new
Time to break out the Shakespeare tarot deck! After last year’s birthday tarot reading inspired by Dark Sunlight, I decided I wanted to make this a regular thing. I found the reading for the year to be very helpful. I’m not using the deck to accurately predict exactly what’s going
That’s it. I’ve had another birthday, so last year’s tarot reading is over. But that just means I got to do a whole new birthday reading this year! Although I won’t be sharing the results of my newest tarot reading until tomorrow, that’s just fine because I still have to
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