Recent acceptances
More news coming soon!But for now, three new acceptances to report here. First, I sold a poem, "Body double for the oldest organism," to Star*Line, the official magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. It will be my third poem in......
Anatomy of an Idea: Waterways
My story Waterways was recently published in Storyhack, Issue 6, available here. The catalyst of the story is a sacred pool that bestows upon the people the skills of ancestors. When the city is conquered, the youngest of those who were imm......
Consume Post-Apocalypic Literature
In times like these, we should all consume more post-apocalyptic literature. This thought has been circling my mind the last few weeks and in examining its origin, I found it rooted in my lack of immediate concern surrounding the current situation. As street and foot traffic slow significantly, store-shelves...
The #Writer’s Craft: #Edit using #Free SAS #Writing Reviser
(Beth Turnage) One gem in Google Apps is the free editing tool g.suite’s SAS Writing Reviser. Designed for school use, there is no reason why you can’t use it for your writing. Now, I love this thing, not only for its price point but also for the tools it...
All English Teachers Should Write
I’ve been writing stories since middle school. They weren’t any good (and some of mine now still aren’t) but I was writing. I didn’t start caring about the craft of writing until I had stories of my own I needed to tell. My drive to master the mechanics, conventions,...
Self-isolation Tips for the Jilted Generation
Well, I can safely say my hands have never been cleaner, every time I come in the house, I resemble Lady Macbeth, although I’m not sure she ever did her thumbs. Of course, in the UK, we are used to dealing with things like corona virus with humour. Who......
March Lyrical Worlds
My March newsletter will be going out soon. This one includes a reprint of a Weird Western that was first published almost a decade ago. If you haven't signed up yet, make sure you do so soon, so you don't miss this story!
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I recently finished reading Soseki Natsume’s I Am a Cat, and shortly after I finished, Findus handed me the below reflections and insisted I publish them for him. So here you go. I am a Cat. The name they’ve given me is Findus. It’s as good a name as...
At a Bit of a Crossroads
I think we all come to them, in life. All the time. Points where seemingly minor decisions can have cascading effects for months or years. I think I’m hitting one of those in my writing life now. So now I sit here at three in the morning, unable to...
Carnival Days and Days in DSF
My fourth appearance in Daily Science Fiction came yesterday, with "Carnival Days and Days." As the note at the bottom states, I wrote the story while sitting in the airport, waiting to come back home to Colorado about a year ago. It's a story of air t......