Summer’s End
School is starting tomorrow and summer is going out with a bang (heat advisory). I don’t know how to feel about it. All year, all winter long I dream up such high expectations of summer and then somehow it just…
Lori
Send Us Your Best Work
Demoralizing, exasperating, demotivating, patronizing, simply soul crushing calls for submissions: Please send us your best work. Do not sent us stories that have been rejected by other publications. Edit thoroughly and send us only your cleanest work. Format according to…
Style Inspiration: Julianne Moore
I could look at pictures of Julianne Moore all day for style inspiration. There is something about the clothes and the way she wears them, like they are hers and she is herself in them, that is very powerful and…
Punctuated by horror movies
Dracula, 1958, with Christopher Lee. I hail from Romania. so o, course. I remember watching this particular Dracula with my little sister, my cousin O (lifelong partner in horror-appreciation), and my aunt, O’s mother, at home. My parents were away…
Feminizing the canon, are we?
The Paris Review has started this new column they call “Feminize Your Canon,” which looks like the best idea I’ve seen lately in support of women’s writing. There is a but, though. It depressed me like nothing else. If you…
The smallness
It’s something that the human brain cannot really process: our own smallness. I have been having to deal with a lot of rejection coming my way lately. Since January I haven’t had any story accepted for publication, although I…
Stationery: bullet journaling
Since late last year I fell victim to the bullet journal craze. I am easily swayed by trends, as we all know, but this time I was actively looking for a system that would bring back pens and notebooks into…
Checking in: snow day
Another snow day. I heard yesterday on the radio that historically in our area we get the most snow of the winter in the first two weeks of February. Right. So, it’s not over. This winter has been relentless. But…
A dreadpunk, gaslamp, and dark steampunk anthology: DeadSteam
One of my short stories, “A Visitor at Sultana’s Castle,” is set to appear in the upcoming DeadSteam anthology, edited by Bryce Raffle, to be published by Grimmer & Grimmer Books in October 2018. The dreadpunk, gaslamp, and dark steampunk…
Wardrobe planning: What I’ll wear
Looks like everyone (Grechen of Greche’s Closet, Talia of Ethel Grace, and M of Work From Home Wardrobe) is thinking about planning their future purchases and style tweaks for the year, and I am, as always, feeling the inspiration. Something…