Had the absolute worst cramps I’ve had a very long time yesterday and had to cut my afternoon work short. Since starting this work, I’ve been able to work through the bad cramp days, but this was an 8-9 on my pain scale for about three hours, highly unpleasant, and pain amnesia means it all feels like a dream I had. Fortunately, they’ve receded to manageable or quiet since, but man, it was bad. And now I have to work this afternoon to make up for what I missed. Sigh.

News:

“Eviratum” has been posted on Crystal Lake’s Patreon as a finalist for this month’s flash fiction contest on the theme Music Horror. It doesn’t appear to be one of my more popular ones, but I’m still just happy I was able to write it.

Works in Progress:

I’m at 24,025 words on Never & Forever (Meridian Book 8), so around a quarter through, and I’m finally at the point that things start getting more interesting (on a supernatural level). I had to pause the writing on Wednesday and Thursday to edit the first chapter and send it in so it could be included as a sneak peek in Tooth & Claw (M7, coming out in October).

I’m still happy with the story, and this is around where I kept getting stuck on all previous incarnations of T&C, so I assume N&F is still a good story to work on, which is such a relief.

Books I’m Reading:

Raising Loki: A Memoir by Elliot Manarin
Rose Madder by Stephen King

Things I’m Listening To:

Halloween playlist

Things I’m Watching:

Stir of Echoes
The Long Walk
The Monkey
The Rookie series (finished)
Matlock series
CSI series
CSI: NY series
Wear Whatever the F You Want series
Halloween Baking Championship series
Hoarders series
The Rookie series

Poem of the Week:

corvid conversations calm me in the morning
mockingbird repertoires incense me at night
and i admire the wrens’ full-throated song
for despite their size they trill like bullets
in the distance the kites call to their mate
while the mourning dove mourns hers