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Bipedal Motion
Mermaids, ghosts, and a haunted house? Spooky things abound in my short story “Bipedal Motion,” which you can read here. “There was a group of wild children who had claimed the manor house’s untamed back garden as their own; to rule over as they saw fit, to hide out in when their parents cast…
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The Pretty Fall
The Pretty Fall So after having my story “The Pretty Fall” accepted in September of 2012, it finally appears in the new issue of Passages North! And it was well worth the wait, if only for that awesomely weird and wonderful cover. “A prayer for The Tightrope Artist’s ankles. The Tightrope Artist was known all…
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America, Digitally and Redactable | The Review Review
America, Digitally and Redactable | The Review Review My first review, which thankfully was a good one: “Fiction-wise, I love “The Outlaw Cordelia Powell” by Khristian Mecom. A story about a fifteen-year-old girl and her relationship with her father, with some fireworks and a summer crush thrown in for good measure. Mecom captures the feelings…
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Wolves at the Door
Wolves at the Door New fiction, “Wolves at the Door,” the story of a girl raised by wolves, is up at Luna Station Quarterly.
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WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle
WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle Elmore Leonard, who passed away, with his rules of writing. – Basically, yes to all of them. (Although, I may argue against the detailed description one.) – Easy on the adverbs and fancy dialogue tags. – I find myself wanting to use the…
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The first book I wrote was award winning. Kind of. It made the local paper, at least.
Polly Ann Crocodile – the story of a girl and her crocodile. You may ask living in Florida, why it was not a girl and her alligator. Well, the 10 year old me thought crocodile sounded better paired with Polly Ann becasue of the “o” sound. So in a convoluted plot point, Polly Ann travels…
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The Art of Submitting to Literary Journals
And just how does one go about getting things published in lit journals? Well, I’m glad you asked. This blog post I wrote may have some answers.
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Procrastination and and Schrodinger’s cat
Writing and thinking about writing may or may not be the same thing and not the same thing. All at once. Just like Schrodinger’s cat. Wait, what?
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