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  • NEAT. Issue 2 is LIVE!

    Exciting news! Issue 2 is NOW LIVE over at the website for NEAT. TM Keesling and I are pumped about this one. Check it out and read, comment, review! Our theme this time around was beginnings, endings, and beginnings that come from endings. That resulted in stories across the board that encompass sentiments of loss,…

  • “I Feel Weird This Week,” or, “I Figured Out Why Writers Drink So Much” — A Story by Liz

    I’ve been working this week on a story I started about a month ago (exactly a month ago, actually), the first draft of which is here. After I wrote that draft for the Trifecta Challenge, I realized there is something more here to explore, something I’ve been trying to write about for years and years:…

  • Checking In . . .

    . . . from the perpetual place of not-deadness. So you still have to keep reading my stuff for just a little longer anyway. Just wanted to update you on a few things that have been going on lately. I’ve been exceptionally busy, which may or may not be an excuse for not having posted…

  • Story of the Week #11 — “With Cat” by Kelly Magee and Carol Guess

    This week’s story is up on Word Riot and is a piece by two authors I have written about before. “With Cat” seems to be a continuation of “With Human,” or at least takes place in that same headspace  that develops a critique on the relationship between childbearing and identity. The piece is divided into…

  • Story of the Week #10 — “Morning Aroma” by Noah C. Patterson

    In honor of Halloween and of my finding this wonderful little mag/blog MicroHorror, I decided to make one of the entries in the 2013 Contest our Story of the Week. MicroHorror is a neat website run by Nathan Rosen that has striven to be “the Web’s premier free repository for horror microfiction” since 2006. That…

  • Thesis Reading List (The horror! The horror!)

    Dear Readers, I’m about to become a hermit, to the tune of 50 books to read before July/August (on top of all that other shit I mentioned in that other post). Wish me luck! Or something. Here is my reading list. I’m going to also post it on the “What I’m Reading” page so that…

  • Trifecta Writing Prompt: BOO

    This week’s Trifecta challenge, appropriately themed for Halloween, is BOO. Here is the third bullet of the definition given:  3. (verb) to show dislike or disapproval of someone or something by shouting “Boo” slowly I suppose now is as good a time as any to be writing a ghost story. “Meddling Kid” Jane looked up…

  • MicroHorror Story Contest Submission

    I recently submitted a piece of flash fiction to MicroHorror’s Halloween Story Contest. The editor, Nathan Rosen, has it up on the site along with the other contest entries. Check it out! My sub is called “There Be Giants.” This is my short attempt at describing real terror. Fingers crossed on this one, guys!

  • Thoughts on NaNoWriMo

    People have been asking me lately — as they do every year — whether or not I will participate in National Novel Writing Month. The answer — as it is every year — is probably not. November is a busy time for school. I’ll be writing essays and reading books and doing all manner of…

  • Story of the Week #9 — “Chance” by Conor Powers-Smith

    Found a horror/fantasy/speculative fiction mag called Black Treacle the other day. They are a Canada-based online magazine that publishes bimonthly. Though I’m not from Canada (and they give preference to Canadian writers), I submitted something anyway. The worst they can say is no. This week’s Story of the Week is, actually, written by a guy…