I’ll be back next week with a new Prydain recap – the first chapter of “The High King” – but in the meantime, I’m excited to announce I’ve just published a new story, “Up, Up and Hooray!” If you’ve read “Nothing to Fear but Fear …
Read MoreA year in the life (and then some…)
It’s been one year today since I started this blog, so I thought I’d share the story of how it came to be and my writing life up to this point. My rebirth as a writer really began three years ago, when my sister gave …
Read MoreHappy Halloween! What’s for dinner?
If you’ve read my short story, “Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (and Spiders),” you might be curious about the meal that Macy prepares for Stan: “carrot bisque with sour cream drizzled into a spider web pattern on the top – More spiders! Who wants …
Read MoreWhat I’m Reading: The Middlesteins
More a collection of linked short stories than a novel, Jami Attenberg’s “The Middlesteins” paints a family portrait from a number of different perspectives. Each chapter is told from the POV of a different character, among them matriarch Edie, a “queen among women” whose weight …
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