Lamplit Underground I am grateful “The Perils of Reading the Classics When You’re No Holden Caulfield” was accepted into issue ten of Lamplit Underground which launched today. It was probably sometime in the middle months of our stay in Portland, Oregon when I first wrote “The Perils of Reading the Classics When You’reContinue Reading
Short Beasts My short story “Poop Sprinkler” appears in Short Beasts today. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be featured in Short Beasts, and I wonder if grateful is too light a word for it. I am delighted, elated, beyond description of my emotions. If you have aContinue Reading
It may be too late for a serious reflection on this, but here it goes anyway. I bring it up now, mid-June only because I’ve had it in me to start cleaning up files on my desktop. There are a great many digital files that I do not need, manyContinue Reading
Refer to the first post of the year “A Year of Creative Challenges.” As 2023 comes to an end next week, I see it go with a small level of sadness mixed with a pinch of pride. I started this year with notion that I would do a creative challengeContinue Reading
I love the very idea of getting a story published. I can’t think of a single writer who doesn’t like this. I love the small literary magazines too. I love that so many of them are looking for writers of marginalized communities. I am tickled to think that so manyContinue Reading
As I started this process of submitting a story a day, it came to a question of which stories. I have written just under 200 short stories since 2009. I have, maybe, another 100 that I wrote before 2009. When I say I have 300 short stories, I think thisContinue Reading
For December’s creative challenge, I decided I would submit a short story a day all month. The reasons why I decided to do this are so many that I don’t know if I’ll be able to organize my thoughts on the subject. For starters, I have been feeling low lately.Continue Reading
I would be remiss to exclude my feelings with this project, this year’s NaNoWriMo, this Twenty-four Hours in Vancouver. The feelings, all of them, intense ones too, are all over the place. The truth is, I really don’t know how I feel or where to begin. I could begin inContinue Reading
I have so many feelings right now with my NaNoWriMo manuscript that I am really unable to order them. It’s really the reworking of Twenty-four Hours in Vancouver that I’m overwhelmed with. I did not feel the way that I do now when I wrote the original story 24 yearsContinue Reading
I have been to Vancouver, BC only twice. I was there in November of 1999, and that visit was only twenty-four hours. Admittedly, I did so much during that visit that it seemed like a much longer time. And, as the case was, I was alone during the road tripContinue Reading