So a while ago, we were experiencing a series of haunting-like events, collaborated by the late lamented Bogie (bane of bears, eater of everything).  We recently were claimed by a new (to us) corgi.  A few days ago, youngest spawn was alone in the house. I found her (and the dog) in the back room.

“The footsteps are back,” she told me, casually ( Read more... )

Recent inkscrawl acceptances include poems by Charles Nelson, Ross Balcom, Francesca Forrest, Brock Marie Moore, Dominik Parisien, David Kopaska-Merkel, Sonya Taaffe, and Richard Magahiz. Follow the links for poetry goodness!

Today is the last day to sub your short (ten lines or less) speculative poems for the upcoming issue. Flex those minimalist ( Read more... )

Current inkscrawl acceptances include an ekphrastic poem by Karen Romanko, and poems by Bethany Powell, Adrienne Odasso, Kendall Evans, Larry Hammer and Sofia Samatar.  Follow the links to read some wonderful poems by these writers.

inkscrawl submissions will remain open through the end of May, so there’s some time to send your speculative poetry ( Read more... )

The good: I'm in an undisclosed location (ok, it's the library at Rancho Mirage), taking a couple writing days. Yay ( Read more... )

Suckage ( Read more... )

Rabbit, rabbit.

2012 begins, after taking spouse to Union Station with dim light gilding the abandoned freeways, with a rejection from Asimov's.
An auspicious start: brush, floss, revise, resend.

Haunting updateSo this morning I was sitting on the couch. They kids had already left for school, and I was just trying to gather my scattered thoughts and prepare for the day.  The room is the kind of house-length length entry/living/dining room you get in small craftsman bungalows, with the old narrow floorboards. The dog was sitting at my feet ( Read more... )

So it actually got a little weirder. I didn't think it could be the dog walking around, because it had the heft of a man with a man's weight, not a dog with a clatter of nails. But when I finally got up to check the house I looked for him where he usually sleeps and there he was - which should be reassuring, because if it was some corporal guy who' ( Read more... )

After last night, I’m pretty sure the house is haunted ( Read more... )

After much nail baiting and thanks to my husband's current employer being much better at actually paying him than his former (and thanks as  well as my marvelous mother for taking over teen-shuttling duties), I find I'm able to go to WFC in San Diego.

This is where I'll be:

Thursday night: Tina Connolly and Claire Cooney’s Fantastical​ Traveling ( Read more... )