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Book Cover: Rites & Desires

Rites & Desires

Illustration of a red-headed woman in front of a cityscape with stylized clocks behind her. At the top it has green eyes with the words "Time & Again". At the bottom it says "Amanda Cherry" and "A Cobalt City Universe Story".

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Fun for Friday: May 2024 Writing Prompts
Time for another month worth of writing prompts! It’s my favorite time of year, MerMay, so the first column is the MerMay 2024 prompts! MerMay is a mermaid-related art challenge, so all of these words are meant to be combined with merfolk of some sort. There are a couple of named individuals in this year’s
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Review of Loving Safoa by Liza Wemakor
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“Green-Eyed Phantom” in Unfixed Timelines 3
“Green-Eyed Phantom” combines three of my favorite things to write–historical fiction, young characters, and siblings. It’s a story in which two pre-teen sisters attend a Civil War soldiers’ reunion with their parents and encounter something unexpected. I based the setting on the many, many old newspaper articles I read about these Civil War soldiers’ reunions
Poetry Form: Haiku Sonnet
I’ve been back in the swing of working on some form poetry, so I’ve got some new-to-me forms to talk about! The haiku sonnet is a combination of the haiku (or senryu) form and the sonnet form. It also has aspect of the tanka form, which I talked about recently. Simply put, it’s four related

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