News:

My COVID-era tale about skin-crawling creepy-crawlies, “Nest/Infest,” is free to read at Horrific Scribblings as part of their Nasty Nature exhibit. Everything on the site is free to read, so explore around for some excellent horror. “Nest/Infest” touches on a number of my own personal icks, so I’m happy to pass those along. Enjoy!

Works in Progress:

I did finish edits for May Cooler Heads Prevail. I need to do another round to clean it up and make sure everything changed flows. I’ll probably have it out next week sometime. I’ve been trying to write a flash piece, but I’m struggling to get started. I’m considering writing it out of order, just to try something new.

However, I have Texas Frightmare this weekend, so I’ll be conserving personal energy and reading in my downtime while waiting in line for panels.

Books I’m Reading:

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Things I’m Listening To:

Singalong playlist
Let’s Hear It for the Girls playlist
Hannibal playlist

Things I’m Watching:

27 Dresses
Obsession (absolutely amazing, go see it in theaters, if you can)
The Thursday Murder Club
Grey’s Anatomy series
Celebrity Jeopardy series (finished)
NCIS series
Tracker series
Prodigal Son series
9-1-1 series
9-1-1 Nashville series
Absentia series
Wayward series
Power Rangers: Reignition series
Dirty Rotten Cleaners series

Poem of the Week: (throwback to May 2022)

How hideously grotesque,
Your crooked little lies,
Grossly deformed ethics,
Barbed and twisted ties,
Ugly as grubs in gardens,
To be violently pecked
By chickens and crows,
In viscera bedecked.
You scrub your teeth
Until they gleam white
As poisonous bleach,
Your pristine blight
A vile gift
Wrapped round rot,
A pretense at perfect
When emphatically not.
May they see outside
What lurks within,
Monstrous heart riddled
With most disgusting sin.