Reading Time: 3 Minutes Noise. Everywhere, noise. Notifications, red dots, calls, texts, messages, pictures, chats. It was all getting to be a bit too much. I was in need of a digital detox pretty badly, so a few weeks ago I set aside the weekend where I would be without my phone. This coincided with…
Anemoia
Reading Time: 6 Mins I have always been a storyteller. I have always been a storyteller. In 3rd grade I wrote Dwarf Island and my teacher had it bound. The librarian put it on the shelf so other kids could sign it out. Thank you to all the teachers out there helping the smalls feel…
Back to our regular scheduled programming
I read the last few lines of my last blog post from June 24th, 2023, now and just shake my head. Four days later my mother died. This is the first public space in which I’ve written those words. But this is not a post about that. This is a post about a person, me,…
Thespacebetweenthewords
Find me a writer with a day job and I’ll find you someone who regularly struggles with balance. I went from unemployed, growing my hair long, getting up and writing every day to gainfully employed, cutting my hair, getting up and barely getting a prompt written before my day explodes into meetings, conversations, calls and…
One Year Later…
Reading Time: 4 Mins Well here we are, one year into this new writing journey, and if you are reading these words you are a part of it, so thank you. Whether you followed a link on twitter, have this blog bookmarked and check it daily (and are disappointed 59 days out of 60) or…
Weekend Woolgathering – 1/14/23
Reading Time: 6 Mins This past week I hit my three-month anniversary in my new role after being out of work for fourteen months after being with a company for eighteen years. And I am loving it. The people, the work itself, the ability to draw on my previous experience and the empowerment to bring…
The History Of Everything – VSS Weekly 12 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins In the space between heartbeats, everything was gone, as if the wick of time itself had been snuffed out. In the after we roamed, souls without form, at one with the cosmos, aimless, until the shadowblack of spent stars found their shape again and awoke. We were aware of all things…
Back To Work
Reading Time: 2 Mins Another chapter closed and I will be forever grateful for the last fourteen months. We lived in the moment, celebrated life, I was present and I was able to reignite my creative passions that had been dormant for so long. I finished writing a manuscript, my second, and have built a…
The Numbers Game: Coping With Rejection
Reading Time: 6 Mins I received a rejection email last night at 12:38 a.m. for a short story I had submitted to a popular and prestigious magazine. I knew I was swinging for the fences by submitting there. After all, I am an unpublished author and this was also my first real foray into trying…
Review: Beneath The Rising
Reading Time: 2 mins After listening to the audio book for The Annual Migration Of Clouds (reviewed here) I immediately purchased both this book and its sequel. I was not disappointed. Coming of age cosmic horror may be a genre best defined by Stranger Things, but it does not end there. If the genre appeals…