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Published in After Happy Hour Review, May 2021 Whoever Justin Barnes was, his car is a mess. You drive south. Not on purpose; that’s just what the car tells you.…
Keep readingKaroshi: A Satirical Memo
On behalf of myself, the ad. team, and my fellow worker bees, I’d like to inform the powers that be of the individual and institutional mismanagement, maleficence, and malapropism of…
Keep readingI Can’t Bring Myself to Birth You Yet
My mother raised me to do / be / experience more than her, so I trek life the long way round, ease into things, cross my T’s and dot my I’s, say please and thank you and apologize –…
Keep readingFrom Home – Coalesce Community Autumnal Equinox 2022 Collection
My husband and I decide we can’t afford kids in this economy and buy a new couch to make our home-office-gym-bar-restaurant-prison more comfortable.
Keep readingIn Nomine Patris
First published in Northern Appalachia Review, Vol. 2, August 2021 My Catholic primary school built a new church and converted the old one into classrooms. The new one isn’t connected…
Keep readingWhy I Turned Down a Publishing House
The road to publishing is full of disappointment, but every now and then, you get to be on the opposite side of a rejection letter. Trust me, it feels good.
Keep readingLiterary Success Isn’t a Pie: Supporting Your Fellow Writers
Writing is a solitary sport, and no writer will tell you differently. That doesn’t mean we step on others to achieve our goals or that there aren’t plenty of opportunities…
Keep readingWhy Are There Dragons in My Cafe?
If you read my first blog An Introduction in Five Titles, you may have noticed that four out of five of the books I mentioned fall under speculative fiction, or…
Keep readingWriting for a Living: The Cold Reality of an 8 to 5
Dr. Michael W. Cox, my undergraduate mentor, a brilliant author and professor, said something to the effect of: it’s great to write and publish books, but you still need to…
Keep readingAn Introduction in Five Titles
In school, we announce our name, our favorite subject, and a “fun” fact. At work, it’s a gradual handing out of our favorite movies, family life, and inappropriate stories over…
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