Month: December 2016

  • Into the new year: Words for 2017

    The song that means the most to me today. (Yes, it’s a story of lost love, but in this case, make it an older sister who’d expected to grow old taking care of the younger one). And a new poem… One View From Shadow One stands upon dark winter’s sill And shudders at the gathering…

  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Cultural Appropriation: A question for other writers

    The objective of writing science fiction, fantasy, (and fiction in general) is to explore the world of what could be, what should be, what should never be — to challenge your own assumptions, to discover, uncover, or invent new ways of thinking about life and new ways of seeing the world, humanity, and life, to…

  • Reader Interview: The Thing You Want to Do?

    You have dreams, goals, passions, and a vision of things you want to accomplish in your life. But if you can only accomplish one of them, what’s the big one? The one you really love? And what is it about that dream / goal / passion that makes it special? Tell your story of the…

  • Minerva Wakes re-release, and new revision freebie

    The Story: Ahead of a coming storm, Minerva Kiakra is fighting her way through crowded grocery aisles, when the last box of cereal is yanked from her grasp… …by the impossible. She does not see a dragon. Does not. Does NOT. And when the same dragon cuts her off in traffic? No, no, no. But…