Tag: Short Stories
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Back to Square One and Other Thoughts at 41

Photo: I took a full-blown “old lady tumble” on Tuesday afternoon. One of those “I don’t know what I tripped on” sort of falls that sent me forward onto my driveway, hard on the wrist and the knee and on the foot. Being young (for a while longer) and foolish (likely forever), I of course…
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Why the Portal Doesn’t Roar: Insight into my story, Exit Interview

Photo: Smug, a sculpture by Tony Smith, at Glenstone in Maryland. I have been meaning to write about that place and I will. That place has absolutely captured my attention and I can’t fully put my thumb on why. Anyway, this isn’t what the portals in my story look like, but I like that I…
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I’m in FIYAH Magazine Today! (And I still can’t believe it!)

Graphic above: The absolutely gorgeous cover for FIYAH #31: Spacefaring Aunties. Cover art by Cyan Daly. Today is probably a year in the making (or somewhere close). FIYAH put out their submission schedule for 2024 and I looked at the list, saw Spacefaring Aunties, and my brain exploded with ideas. None of those ideas made…
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And So? What Do You Know? What the Story Means to Me.

I had to go rifling through memory to find the roots for this story. And So? is a fiction, but it is also an intermingling of a lot of memory and events that did, indeed, happen.
