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To whom it may concern: I am writing to express my heartfelt recommendation for Ms. Felix Morgan for the writing position you have advertised. Ms. Morgan is a friend of mine, which is to say she doesn't mind that I’m dead, and I don’t mind that she’s stubborn. Felix has many peculiar qualities that make …
Continue reading "A Recommendation Letter From Mark Twain."
Buy this story along with two others in this lil chapbook from Awst Press He didn’t mean to steal her heart. He never meant to. He’d been accused of that before. Usually women who failed to take seriously his carefully worded disclaimer about being in the moment, and connections or “relationships” not needing to be …
Seth Meeks and I have long dreamed of a medium that would allow us to dispense bad advice, and random conversation, on the internets. After flirting with podcasting, we have found our IDEAL medium with the help of Dirt City Studios and Novel Concept's digital video genius Marcos Morales. Join hosts Fox and Crow, two …
Those who live by the sword die by the sword. I guess. But what about the ones trying to live with their pens and typewriters? Those inky fingers and mad hearts? My aunt loves to say that sunsets are for the lazy. Because they billow out for hours. Unfurl like a sipping whiskey. Sunrises are …
Every time I finish a fiction project I am cleaned out and happy and exhausted. I go to bed early for a while. I watch a lot of movies. I draw with my kids. I sit with a fear that that was it. That I've peaked. That I will have no more interesting ideas. That …
Continue reading "Creative hangovers and how to hatch an idea."
This morning I woke up and told my daughters that instead of electing the first woman president, half of the country, enough to matter, voted for hate, incompetence, and intolerance. This afternoon I take my older daughter to a specialist because she's recently been diagnosed with scoliosis and I wait to hear from my younger …
Continue reading "Greif, fear, and rain. Post election thoughts."
Warner Herzog’s Bridget Jones’s Diary Steven Spielberg’s The Communist Manifesto Ron Howard’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Richard Linklater’s Ulysses Wes Anderson’s Les Misérables Tim Burton’s The Brothers Karamazov Martin Scorsese’s Infinite Jest (Director’s Cut) Oliver Stone’s Gone Girl The Wazowski Sisters’ Farewell to Arms David Lynch’s Gone With The Wind Chris Nolan’s Finnegan’s Wake Nora Ephron’s …
I hate all the characters and also the story and also words in general and who even reads anymore anyway and what ever happened to wanting to be an astronaut, Felix Not enough coffee. Too much coffee. My laptop battery was only at 56% and I left my charger at home. Something shiny. I got …
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The day has come! So thrilled to announce that AWST Press is publishing a hand sewn book of my short stories as part of a collection curated by Owen Egerton. The collection will include three original works: "Hawt Topic", "Abusive Muse", and "Necromancers Don't Say 'I love you'" Owen chose me along with Lindsey Verrill , Erin …
I still haven't told you, dear internets, about the beautiful little book of short stories of mine that is coming out soon. But there, I just did. Now. On to other things. I'm in love with things made of paper. My daily lists are little bits of simple art. I have had to implement an …
Continue reading "Inspiration, Existential Detectives, and Other Mysteries of the Heart and Mind."
I'll be back to blood and guts and monster stories soon, but I remembered this definition of love by Jeanette Winterson from the book Big Questions from Little People & Simple Answers from Great Minds. I guess my top five list is up to seven now. But you know. "You don’t fall in love like you fall …
