News:

I crossed 50 Goodreads ratings on In the Dollhouse We All Wait and 120 Goodreads ratings on Question Not My Salt. I appreciate everyone who’s taken a chance on my rougher novels and continue to hope that you ‘enjoy’ enduring them.

Works in Progress:

I finished the Hannibal essay. 10/10, quite fun, will absolutely do it again. In fact, I’ve decided to do the mini-essay on a single Hannibal essay after I finish what I’m working on.

I’m trying to write this flash piece for Shallow Waters, but I’m not really feeling it, so I’m struggling to get to the end. My mood has been terrible for the last few days, so I don’t think that it’s bad, just that I’m not in a good headspace. Can’t even blame hormones, which is my reliable go-to.

Books I’m Reading:

The Jackal Man by Russell C. Connor

Things I’m Listening To:

Miranda Lambert
Fourth of July playlist
Hannibal soundtracks
Abyss/Ascent playlist

Things I’m Watching:

Hadestown: The Musical (stunning)
The Midnight Club series (finished)
Watson series
Worst Neighbor Ever series (finished)
Worst Ex Ever series (finished)
America’s Got Talent series
Criminal Minds series
The Closer series
Hawaii Five-O series

Poem of the Week:

pedipalps beckon
over long writhing
glistening tongue
to thick for a throat
rooted in a black hole
borborygmic stomach
a promise of satisfaction

whose thirst is quenched?
whose hunger satiated?
who consumes whom?
who is a what what
subsumes a whom

warm womb and an acid bath