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October 17, 2017
My story ‘Hare’s Breath’ is now available to read online in SHIMMER
My story ‘Hare’s Breath’ is now available to read online in issue #39 of Shimmer. It is set in Sweden, and blends a Swedish Midsummer’s Eve, friendship, tragedy, and folklore with a dark chapter in Swedish history. Read ‘Hare’s Breath’ for free I am so grateful to the wonderful team at Shimmer for giving this […]
October 2, 2017
Read my story ‘Buried’ – written for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast
You can hear me read this story on episode #70 of R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast – Poe-inspired, Telltale-Heart episode. The prompts for this episode were “September”, and this photo, taken by podcast master R.B. Wood of the Poe-statue in Boston: Listen to the episode. My story is a riff on Poe’s Telltale Heart and […]
October 1, 2017
22 glorious short stories I read in September
There are 22 stories in this month’s roundup, and one reason there are so many is because my kids went to the wave-pool. Sounds weird, maybe, but the best place for me to get the time to read uninterrupted is when I take them to the wave pool. Drop them in the water, sit down, […]
September 30, 2017
Writerly recap of August & September, 2017 – stories published & sold + bits & bobs
August, and especially September, seem to have gone by in a flash. September is always a bit of a muddle, with the kids going back to school and me trying to get the hang of their schedule and trying to get back into my own schedule of writing, writing, and reading (and then more writing). […]
Story-notes for my new story ‘The Wayfinder & His Sister’ at CAST OF WONDERS
My story ‘The Wayfinder & His Sister’ is now live at Cast of Wonders! It is part of Banned Books Week, and I wrote it specifically for this year’s theme, Text Against Tyranny: “the stories some would silence, and the power of literature, in all its forms, to enlighten humanity’s darkest hours.” I was so […]
September 29, 2017
Read an interview with me in Chloe N. Clark’s TinyLetter
Awesome fellow author Chloe N. Clark was kind enough to interview me for her lovely TinyLetter. Check out the interview! Chloe is an amazing author of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and this week you can check her out at Nerd of a Feather where she writes a new column on horror: Horror 101 – An […]
September 25, 2017
Read my story ‘Balawats portar’ / ‘The Gates of Balawat’ in SAMOVAR MAGAZINE
You can read my science fiction story ‘The Gates of Balawat’, originally ‘Balawats portar’, in the brand new issue of Samovar Magazine. Also in the issue: poetry by Salik Shah, a column by Rachel Cordasco, and fiction by Stamatis Stamatopoulos. (Next week, you will also be able to listen to the story read in both English […]
Banned Books Week – at Cast of Wonders & elsewhere
It’s Banned Books Week – an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and also a time to highlight the many books that have been targeted for banning and even burning through the years. The wonderful YA Podcast Cast of Wonders is running a series of stories on this theme between September 24th and September […]
September 24, 2017
Listen to R.B. Wood’s (Poe-ish) Word Count Podcast #70 & my new story ‘Buried’
Podcast master R.B. Wood has just published a brand new episode of the Word Count Podcast. This is episode #70 and the theme this month was very, very Poe-ish. The story prompts were the month of September, and this photo of Poe and his raven. Listen to episode 70 My story ‘Buried’ is inspired by […]
September 11, 2017
Read ‘Hidden’ – a story written for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast
You can hear me read this story on episode #69 of R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast. Listen to the episode. The prompts for this episode were “August”, and this photo: The tent in my story might be a bit different than the tent in the photo, but, you know, poetic licence and all that… I […]
