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“Just Add Holy Water” in Conceits of Whim and Fancy
“Just Add Holy Water” is a fantasy short story featuring a young protagonist working alongside a reanimated skeleton to solve a problem. It’s a mix of fun and peril for the characters, but it all works out in the end–just perhaps not how you might expect. This story originally appeared in Death’s Sting: Where Art Thou?
Review of Loving Safoa by Liza Wemakor
Loving Safoa by Liza Wemakor (Neon Hemlock, 2024) is a novella featuring Black lesbian vampires, with aspects of vampirism that I haven’t seen in many stories featuring vampires. But this approach is interwoven into a story that spans centuries and locations. Cynthia begins the story as a mortal woman who is very close to changing
“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
Events!
Next Friday, April 26th, I will be at Main Street Books in Monroe, WA from 1:30-3:30PM to greet patrons and sign books in celebration of Snohomish County Independent Bookstore Week. If you’re in Snohomish County or nearby, I’d love to see you, chat with you about books, and introduce you to the adorable bookstore cat,

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