Liz Cultivates | L.M. Fern

Category: Musings

  • Five Sentence Fiction: “Greyhound Genetics”

    Wrote up a short story for this week’s Five Sentence Fiction. The one-word inspiration for this week: “home.” Greyhound Genetics My old man suffers from an acute case of wanderlust. We’d never stayed in one place for more than four years at a time before building our own home and…

  • Story of the Week #5 — “A Sunday Brunch in Amber” by Kelly Ann Kiehl

    I want to apologize to my readers for the long absence. A summer malaise seems to have latched onto me and is only gradually starting to abate. I keep telling myself that it’s because I needed a break after school let out, but a tiny voice in the back of…

  • Literature + Face Waterfalls = Liz Loves to Read Again

    I finally jumped on the John Green bandwagon (it seems everyone else was already on) and read The Fault in Our Stars. It indeed was as good as all the bandwagoners say it is, but of course my saying that isn’t really adding to the literary discussion of this text. It’s…

  • Farewell to The Wheel of Time

    I’m finally reading A Memory of Light, the fourteenth and final installment of Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. The first book was published in February of 1990 (which is, consequently, the month I was born), and the last in January of 2013. These books have been iconic, lovely, masterful,…

  • Call for Readers in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky

    Everyone check out this new magazine based out of Cincinnati, OH. They are looking for editorial assistants/readers for their first issue.

  • Story of the Week #4 — “The Souls of Alligators” by Robert Kloss

    I found this story while browsing the website of Corium Magazine, an online magazine that “publishes stories and poems with substance and connection. Words that touch on nerves and stay. Make us feel something.” Robert Kloss’s “The Souls of Alligators” definitely lingers beneath the surface of the mind. I had…

  • Story of the Week #3 — “You Are The City” by Wei He

    I was browsing the website of a journal that I recently submitted to, Spry Literary Magazine, and met with a surprise—I found a story written by one of my classmates at Miami! Wei He is a fiction writer from China that is graduating this year with a master’s degree in…

  • I just read this . . .

    “I am my mama’s daughter, her shadow on the earth, the blood thinned down a little so that I am not as powerful as she, as immune to want and desire. I am not a mountain or a cave, a force of nature or a power on the earth, but…

  • Here it is!

    “How to Dye Window Treatments” is up on ObsessionMag, an undergraduate literary journal started by four students at Miami University. It feels good to support undergrad endeavors and at the same time get my work up on a website that’s not my own! Enjoy! Check out the story here.

  • Good news!

    I learned yesterday that my short story “How to Dye Window Treatments” is going to be published in the online magazine ObsessionMag (check them out here or here). Sweet beans! I’ll be sure to upload a link when one appears.