Stepping into Stories, One Word at a Time
It feels a bit unreal to have poetry of mine published. It hasn't happened often, but it's happened often enough that I feel like I sometimes know what I'm doing. I recently received a copy in the mail of Bards Annual 2022, a Long Island Poetry Anthology featuring my recently published poem, Daughter of Water.... Continue Reading →
Lucinda Caraway loves living in Freya Grove, the mystic seaside town where charms, hexes, and magical beings of all kinds are the norm. She spends her days teaching high school history and her nights reading tea leaves and tending to her conjure garden. It’s a good life . . . but she can’t stop wishing... Continue Reading →
Let’s face it. Writing is hard. Sometimes the act of writing is easy. We have an idea, a first sentence, a word, and we run with it. Other times writing feels impossible. Maybe it’s our mood. We had a bad day, and at the end of it, we’re not able to create. If you’re a... Continue Reading →
Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. After all, her father was never around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before her daughter was even born.... Continue Reading →
Back in May, I started a monthly goal writing document which highlighted my writing goals for the rest of the year. Then every month, around the 10th, I did a check in and wrote down what I accomplished related to writing in the last month. This kind of served a few purposes. On the one... Continue Reading →
There’s a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison. -Fairy Tale by Stephen King Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom... Continue Reading →
Of Worlds Forgotten 