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Flash Fiction
I like to tell stories. (This should not be a surprise to anyone who’s met me in any way.) One of the things this means is that I have a lot of stories sitting around. Some are finished and short - flash fiction is a hell of a lot of fun and I think more people should...
It’s a Bargain
It's A Bargain Joan Grey *** I wasn’t going to make it. Which was bad enough for just-me (who wants to die in the middle of winter in the Sedli forest? Not me.), but it would be catastrophic for Tiktaw Village. I gritted my teeth and leaned around the side of the...
July Already!??
How is it JULY? Like, I know how time works. I’m not entirely naive. But seriously, wasn’t it March just last week? How did we get here so fast? Ugh.I have worked out some plans for the back half of the year, but I’ll have to really push hard to keep them going. I...
Is Speech An Action
Is Speech Action? Something I’ve noticed, in fiction (and in real life, but I’m far less willing to comment on how people arrange their actual in-person relationships), is that things seem unbalanced. How often have you read a story - usually a romance - where there’s...
Just Whining
Colonoscopy tomorrow, my first. How speshul, ugh. The experience itself doesn't sound awful. My throat imaging was pretty uncomfortable, but this at least lets me lie down while it happens and I don't have to try to hold anything open myself. But the 24 hours of Clear...
Cozy Vibes
Cozy is all over, right now. Everything is cozy. (I’m not complaining, but it’s interesting to see.) Cozy is often called a genre, or a sub-genre, though it’s one which seems hard to define. There are a few common ideas: small scale conflict (or no conflicts at all)...
Nap Time?
Winter is coming! No, it hasn't started snowing (yikes, it's early for that), but the weather turned. It's chilly now. I get cold fast and stay cold; warming back up is hard for me. Something about being cold always makes me want to nap - just curl up into a ball...
August 2025 Drabbles
Aug 1, 2025 Loyalty Obat wished it hadn’t been his brother who’d betrayed everyone. He wished his brother hadn’t been so fucking wilfully blind… but that didn’t matter. His brother had chosen to believe the slick and selfish lies of someone who wanted power and didn’t...
Learned a New Skill
40 hours of audio narration! I’m super proud. In an effort to learn how to make my own audiobooks - I can’t afford a professional narrator, so I thought I’d learn to be a professional narrator - I started making audiobooks of fanfiction, which is called podfiction....
