So Why Do I Care If Lydia Ondrusek Has A Website?
Because this is where you go to find out what I've been doing lately — which is to say, where you can find stuff I've written. So if that's something you want to do, this is where you should be.
Once upon a time I was Lydia O. on a site called Gather.com. There are still some pieces of mine there, including a long nonfiction piece I'm rather proud of called "Hysterical".
Anne Stuessy at www.sniplits.com has been kind enough to purchase and produce several of my pieces for her amazing site, where short fiction is available as DRM-free mp3 downloads. Membership is free and will get you a free story a week, plus access to a wide selection of authors and stories of all genres and sizes. Anne purchased my microfiction "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and produced four of my fifty-worders in a package called "Home and Away Stories." You can get all five pieces for — are you ready? Ninety-six cents, total.
Josh over at Yankee Pot Roast took a piece called "Everything I Need To Know I Learned Watching Bravo". It's just what it sounds like.
Once Upon A Time Everyone Had Bodies – Burst Literary EZine Fall 2008 issue
Heat — Flash Me, Oct. 31, 2008 release — this was an entry in their Lightning Flash Fast contest
Open Sesame — Flash Me, Oct. 31 release — this was an all-fantasy issue for Flash Me; they took it to the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary. Open Sesame, like Heat, is only available through purchase of the issue.
Shelter — Flash Fiction Online, Dec. 2, 2008 release — free subscriptions available here:
http://www.flashfictiononline.com/.
From The Back Of a Photograph (No Name or Date) — Falling Star Magazine Winter '08-'09 issue — PRINT, baby! Distributed at: City Lights Books in San Francisco, Beyond Baroque in Venice (L.A.) California, Bowery Poetry Club in NYC and the Poetry Cafe in London.
Work Ethic – Flash Me Magazine, Spring '09 issue, live April 30
Shift – Every Day Fiction, live May 27, 2009
Gruff – New Myths, live June 1, 2009
How It Happens (poem) Falling Star Magazine, Summer 2009
Delivery (poem)– Crash #1, January 2010
Sip (poem)– Five Fishes Journal, Oct. 2009
Nola, When She Sings (poem)– Five Fishes Journal, March 2010
One-Up — Everyday Weirdness, May 9, 2010
Crossing, 3 Ways of Looking at a Volcano (poetry)– Leaves and Flowers #1
The Crawl At The Bottom Of The Screen (poem)– Leaves and Flowers #2
Four (poem)– Leaves and Flowers #3 (not yet released)
Wisdom (poem) — Apex Magazine, July 2010
Every Vote Counts – Zombie Summer, No Time To Say It Blog, September 2010
Sargassum – Poets for Living Waters project, September 2010 (poems written in response to Deepwater)
Hateful – GUD Magazine, Summer 2010
Contests:
Sept. 2007 — Dallas/Fort Worth Writer's Workshop Short Story Contest, third place, Words, Words, Words
July 2008 — Texas Nonfiction Writers Bad Writing Contest, first place, When Love Shuffled Off This Mortal Coil
May 2009 — Finalist in Writer's League of Texas Manuscript Contest, mainstream division
Writing Lesson, contest entry for Biblioasis' "Kill a Critic" microfiction contest


