Magic from the Shadows

Thank goodness for queer publishers. They buy the stories that I think are too strange for anyone to want to print.

So far this month, I have one new publication. My flash fiction "Before the Flood" has been published by The Storms in issue 5. You can also listen to me read it on their podcast: Eat the Storms. Everyone's work is well worth listening to. My narration begins at the 54-minute mark.

I have taken a temp position at an arts board. Rather than writing/submitting grant applications as usual, this time, I'll be adjudicating grant applications. I figure it's good experience, and will educational AF. I just hate that not everyone will get the money they need and deserve. I used to be on a scholarship committee, and it was the same hard thing.

Pre-orders are now up for an anthology I'm in: Up:Rising - A Collection of Rebellious Imaginings From Authors With Lived Experience of Mental Health & Addictions. My poems "Half Blood Line" and "To Live a Life More Full" are featured within.

In the meantime, I continue to work on my various writing projects. It never ends until I do.

I'm busy, as usual.

My drabble The Bison Return with the Prairie Grass is a winner of Augur Magazine's microfiction contest.

My story "The Grave of Robert Kirk," a folkloric tale of what happens when the aforementioned grave is robbed, is forthcoming in Once Upon a Moonless Night. The Kickstarter is live.

My story "The Menopause Chrysalis," a weird tale of an ageing two-spirit person dealing with the medical system and the dream world, is forthcoming in Yay! Free and Queer All Queer. The Kickstarter is live.

I'm continuing to work on a story tentatively called "We All Fall Down." It was supposed to be a short story, but so far, it's a novelette and may end up a novella. Oops. It's about a nonbinary tween in a small, desert town, and is set in the early 1980s. It's a puberty horror story, and I'm having fun writing a ritual scene, most recently.

I'm also making good headway on revisions of my novel The Everwhen. I hope a publisher jumps on this. I'm proud of it.