Loren Rhoads's Blog, page 90
December 10, 2010
There's a Death Match tonight!
Weary of cutesy jingles? Family working your last nerve? Ready to go ballistic in the mall? We've got a cure… The Literary Death Match presents first annual Holiday Bloodbath Special!Set to do battle are the "verbal Genghis Kahn" of spoken word, Jamie DeWolf (founder of Tourettes Without Regrets), fiction kitten Sarah Fran Wisby, blood-soaked bards Guinevere Q and Steven Gray, and ...
November 18, 2010
Triggered
The day I moved into my dorm room, a man called just after my mother left me alone for the first time in my life. He threatened to come and rape me. He went into graphic detail of what he was going to do to me. I laughed at him and hung up, but I didn't leave my room until I saw women in the hallway through the peephole. I thought having people around would keep me safe.The following ...
October 31, 2010
A true story for Halloween
Several years ago, I visited New Orleans for Halloween. While at the Westgate Gallery -- at that time, the world's only gallery devoted to the necromantic arts -- I met a mortician who told me a story that still makes me shiver. I'd love to share it with you:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpkeg_... I could embed the video!
October 11, 2010
New story out!
I have a new Alondra story in the Not One of Us 44! In it, Alondra travels to Prague to study alchemy and attempt to save Victor's life.Announcing Not One of Us 44It's autumn and change is in the air. We have selkies and software bugs, dancing feathers and philosopher's stones, and a mother made of dough. Our poets bring us blind eyes and laser lights, floods and fingers, dementia, ...
October 4, 2010
Loren reads at the Lit Crawl
I'll read about visiting Jack London's grave during the last phase of the Lit Crawl Saturday night at 8:30pm at Muddy's Coffee House, 1304 Valencia St., San Francisco.Fourteen Hills Press and Eleven Eleven Present: Voices That Carry**Readers for Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State University Review**Jeannine Hall Gailey is the author of Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books) and the ...
September 30, 2010
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
In honor of the first anniversary of Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues, here's a second look at the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2euCWtVxFA
September 28, 2010
Requiem for a Butterfly
Twice my daughter's kindergarten class raised butterflies from caterpillars. The first time, they got a lesson in the food chain, when a bird swooped down and ate one of their lovingly raised butterflies as soon as they set it free. The second time, the weather was rainy and the butterfly ceremony had to be postponed until a downpour wouldn't knock the butterflies out of the sky.How hard ...
September 20, 2010
Valentine
I have a story up at Wily Writers now. I'm very, very proud of this one. Hope you like it, too. "Valentine" is an urban fantasy tale about a woman who is trying to steal a living supernatural heart to save her mentor's life. She discovers it's more difficult than she expected.The editor describes it as sexy and intense. http://www.wilywriters.com/blog/
September 18, 2010
Haunted Mansion rule #5
Not far from the house lies the old swimming pool. It's become traditional every morning for a group of us to walk down to check on it. The pool is eerie because the redwoods have grown up so close that little sunlight reaches the water. It doesn't help that crumbling stone surrounds the pool and looks like treacherous footing. The water is also choked with plants that don't penetrate ...
September 16, 2010
Cemetery postcards
Ten years ago, I started to collect antique postcards of graveyards. I was entertained that such a thing existed: why would anyone buy, send, or save a picture of a cemetery? Things people chose to commemorate fascinated me. There seemed no end of variety to the images of Grant's Tomb or New Orleans's Saint Louis Cemetery #1. Sometimes cards showed a famous person's grave: ...
