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Sorry I made no posts last month! I was off adventuring in Newfoundland. I went on the Viking Tour, travelling along northwestern Newfoundland with a trip to Red Bay, Labrador, too. I haven't been to Newfoundland since I lived there forty-four years ago. I didn't expect to have that homecoming feeling, but I felt it surge in my chest as we approached by plane and I saw the bogs.
Things have changed, but some things are still the same. Hearing the outport accents brought me back to my childhood, and so did eating foods I haven't had in decades--things like partridgeberry, dewberry, bakeapples, cod with pork scrunchions, fish and brewis, and fried caplin.
Expect to read some stories inspired by my trip.
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I was gone for ten days, and received ten rejections from magazines/anthologies. But just as I was waiting to board the plane to go home, I received an email that my short story "The Infective" has finally gone to print. I wrote that in October/November 2023, when I was laid low by my only known case of COVID (may there be no more). It's an uncanny tale of COVID anxiety, creepy AF, and you can read it in The Asylum of Terror: Vol. 2. It's a fun anthology with great illustrations. Recommended!
While I was there, I also got pre-order information for Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology. My experimental short story "All That Came From Our Lips Were Lilies" is featured within. An early reader compared it to the works of Angela Carter, and now I'm feeling all prideful.
Upon my return, I learned that my essay The Silent Madness of Whales has been reprinted by Zoetic Press and I won contributor of the month. The essay will be part of an anthology called Heathentide Orphans and will be published at the end of the year. I don't have pre-order information for that yet.
My personal essay Insides In and Outsides Out has been published in Breath & Shadow.
This month, I'm busy taking a course on Eastern storytelling with Henry Lien through Writing the Other. It's been pretty intense so far, with a lot of readings to do, movies to watch, and writing exercises to do. I hope I come out the other end a much stronger writer, with four-act storytelling structures as part of my toolbox. But in the meantime, it's kinda breaking my brain.
Things have changed, but some things are still the same. Hearing the outport accents brought me back to my childhood, and so did eating foods I haven't had in decades--things like partridgeberry, dewberry, bakeapples, cod with pork scrunchions, fish and brewis, and fried caplin.
Expect to read some stories inspired by my trip.
I was gone for ten days, and received ten rejections from magazines/anthologies. But just as I was waiting to board the plane to go home, I received an email that my short story "The Infective" has finally gone to print. I wrote that in October/November 2023, when I was laid low by my only known case of COVID (may there be no more). It's an uncanny tale of COVID anxiety, creepy AF, and you can read it in The Asylum of Terror: Vol. 2. It's a fun anthology with great illustrations. Recommended!
While I was there, I also got pre-order information for Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology. My experimental short story "All That Came From Our Lips Were Lilies" is featured within. An early reader compared it to the works of Angela Carter, and now I'm feeling all prideful.
Upon my return, I learned that my essay The Silent Madness of Whales has been reprinted by Zoetic Press and I won contributor of the month. The essay will be part of an anthology called Heathentide Orphans and will be published at the end of the year. I don't have pre-order information for that yet.
My personal essay Insides In and Outsides Out has been published in Breath & Shadow.
This month, I'm busy taking a course on Eastern storytelling with Henry Lien through Writing the Other. It's been pretty intense so far, with a lot of readings to do, movies to watch, and writing exercises to do. I hope I come out the other end a much stronger writer, with four-act storytelling structures as part of my toolbox. But in the meantime, it's kinda breaking my brain.
