News:

This has been a body horror kind of week.

“Full” is up at the Crystal Lake Patreon for the Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest, themed Murder of Crows. It’s a creepy-crawly post-apocalyptic meal for the starving, available to read for the $5/month tier and up, which also buys you voting rights. There are some really good pieces, but they feel criminally underread this month.

My gross, pink horror story “Indigestion” also came out this week in the Last Girls Club Spring Equinox 2024 issue. There’s a print version, but here’s the link to the .pdf version.

Works in Progress:

I passed the 20K-word mark with Shadow & Song (Meridian 7). I still go back and forth as to whether I like it, but anhedonia is a real thing I deal with on the daily, and some of the changes I made do improve the story and give me a reason to continue. I think I’ll know by the end of the month whether this version story is going to work.

I took a day off from working on S&S to edit a bunch of the new poems I’d written this month to put them on my availability list and figure out which ones I could use for a chapbook that I submitted earlier this week.

Books I’m Reading:

Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire
Killing Time by Russell C. Connor

Things I’m Listening To:

Fleurie
Evanescence
Singer-songwriter playlists

Things I’m Watching:

The Abyss
X
Renfield
Baskin
Buffy the Vampire Slayer series (watchalong) (finished)
Angel series (watchalong)
CSI series
CSI: Vegas series
CSI: Miami series
Spring Baking Championship series

Poem of the Week: (throwback from March 2022)

typing through lines
driving through signs
swallowing all the wine
sleeping subprime
such a dreary crime
wasting all this time