I have started two new stories this month rather than finishing the story which I said that I would be finishing. And of course the one I'm most fond of at this point is the one that makes me headtilt at the most dramatic angle. *facepalm*

( Charlie Fayton had never understood the insistence of terrified children that there was a monster living under their bed. )

Aw yeah, all set with opening night tickets for The Hunger Games because my friends are amaaaaaazing and tolerate me yelping frantically at them from Calgary about how tickets are all going to be sold out if we don't buy them RIGHT THIS MINUTE... Look, in my defense, the earliest showing was indeed sold out by then and I was supposed to be ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed that I was a zombie. Not just any old zombie, but an extraordinarily fat male zombie that the other zombies had decided to eat because A) there were no humans around to nom, and B) evidently I looked delicious. So I started running away, but then I figured out that I could fly and tried crashing through various skylights to ( Read more... )

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It's January, y'all! This means that I've only got two months until my term at the courthouse expires. Eight weeks, more accurately. :-\ Oh, looming unemployment. I didn't miss you much, bro ( Read more... )

You guys, I just received fanmail. What is this even ( Read more... )

More on this when I have half a moment.


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"Oh hey, it's the Who Do You Write Like? meme! I remember that meme! Heh... When I did that one a couple years back, I got Stephen King as the result. Well, I've totally improved since then and I think my writing style has changed significantly, so let's paste my most recent short story in and see what happens..."


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How is the weekend almost over already? Did I sleep through most of it or what? *baffled*

Here, have a 250-word "postcard story" that I'm not actually going to use as a contest submission anymore. *g* I have a better notion, y'see. Really. Or at least one that made people go "Whoa, creepy!" when I mentioned it, and is therefore clearly better.

( The Roommate )

So I entered the Writers' Union of Canada postcard competition on a whim way back in February... And I didn't win, but I sure as heck made the long-list! *happy flail* Out of 880 submissions, 114 of us made it through to the long-list. I'm counting that as a victory, yo ( Read more... )