the quiet season

It's Labor Day weekend, and out here that marks the end of the tourist season. Soon this little town will settle back into its sleepy rhythms, the Friday night high school football games and the storms that sweep in...

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Here, there, and everywhere

Where have I been, you ask?  The answer is not home, for the most part.  I’m the pet/housesitter of choice for my wider friend group, and a lot of people have been traveling this spring—I spent a week and...

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the yearly eligibility post

I had a very quiet 2015 on the story front—working two jobs plus writing a novel will do that for you. (2016 may not be much better, unfortunately.)  The one story I had out is a doozy, however: “This...

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in with the new

As I sit here on New Year’s Eve, in a quiet house at the end of a long and busy holiday season, I am grateful that the year gone by went as well as it did.  I changed day...

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bright spinning days; long endless nights

First of all: apparently I didn’t note it here, but This Wanderer, in the Dark of the Year went up at Clarkesworld in June. Someone on Twitter said that it was “the queer journalist first contact story you didn't know...

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