Scroll past my preamble to read the story Fairy tales are a tough genre. Their demand for simplicity seems so restrictive, and it’s only made worse by the prompts and the word count restrictions. As an author, you want to delve into rich character detail and description, you want to run away with the flow […]
I can rarely get criticism. It’s not for lack of wanting; I just don’t have beta readers, I don’t have Twitter followers, I’m my own editor (and yeah, I know how bad that is). When I do get critiques on my work, I treat “don’t defend it” as best policy. Who doesn’t love staying silent […]
This is my first year entering the NYC Midnight Short Story Competition. I had literally never heard of such a thing until Friday, January 18th, about twelve hours before registration closed. I gave it a whole ten minutes of thought and entered, because I’m addicted to the natural high of low odds and instant regret. […]
May the force be with you on this bitch of a Friday. It’s been a while: both since I’ve posted, and since I wrote my first draft of this review, jotting down my thoughts of each story in the audiobook as they cropped up. And here we are, December 2018, in full-on Star Wars withdrawal […]
This year, as soon as the seasons started to hint toward Halloween, my friends and I started injecting raw spooky content straight into the gaps between our toes via hypodermic needles. We revisited all the old favorites: Search and Rescue, Anansi’s Goatman, Candle Cove. We were reminiscing on Ted the Caver, a classic, and experiencing […]
“Do you write, like, fanfiction?” Few things make my blood run cold like a question like that asked IRL, let alone volleyed across the table from one of my coworkers as others filed in the conference room for a staff meeting. I felt my face turn red and decided to just lean into the embarrassment. […]
