Sylvanopolis is putting out its yearly anthology and they said this year there's going to be a theme and a contest: Rewrite a folktale or fairytale for modern times. I guess I feel like that idea has been done to death a million times before.

Anyway, I'm writing a Socialist realism Sleeping Beauty.

Figure that if I got sick I'd get sick from my mom who quarantined herself and not from 10-year-old Autistic Sharlene who licks her hand and puts it on whatever I'm touching ( Read more... )

Today was super easy. The kids were great. Mostly. 1st period I had a couple who wanted to have a race in the classroom to see who was the fastest, and almost no one turned in the work, and those that did mostly had played tic tac toe or drawn all over it. I think one finished and one or two did a few problems. 2nd period was better, 3rd and 4th ( Read more... )

Last Friday I finally told Carlos I would only be doing the supervised visits until February, so that was two weeks notice. Perfectly reasonable, I think. He said okay, but the ride from dropping his daughter off with her mom to the coffee shop where I have my writers' group meeting was in complete silence. He's even been giving Ian the silent ( Read more... )

Thanks to Lexi, I stumbled across the Sylvanopolis Writers' Society. I'm not one for "high fantasy," normally. In fact, I hadn't heard the term until a couple days ago. But I've met a couple interesting people, and it's a good way to get stuff critiqued now that I'm not in college ( Read more... )