The Strings Are A Lie
“The sooner you accept that it was all a lie, the better off you’ll be. You can’t make sense of something so irrational.” Those words stung like hell the first time I’d heard them. In early 2018, in the throes …
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Coming Undone
“Sometimes the death of who we used to be is necessary to become who we were meant to be.”
The Heavy Lifting
I didn’t expect the layers of the onion to be so fucking heavy. I figured I’d been staring at it long enough. I carefully selected the knife, holding various ones in my palm and feeling the weight of it. Putting it …
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Reviewing Other Authors
I had created a fairly lofty goal for myself this year: Read one book a week. Some folks are probably calling me an underachiever while others are asking themselves why the hell I’d even attempt it. See, in the “real …
Author Interview – S M Spencer
Some of you may remember a few weeks ago when I bombarded your Facebook news feeds with how much I was enjoying a new series I’d discovered. Over the course of a single weekend, I read every single word of …
Harassment in the Least Expected of Places
I’ve been working a long time. A lot longer than most people I know in my age range. Part of that was due to a strong penchant for disliking boredom and work kept me busy. When I was a kid, …
Tap Tap…Is This Thing On?
After years of stopping and starting stories and playing around with structures in my brain, at the end of 2013, I finally sat down and wrote. I wish I could say that once I started, I couldn’t stop, but that’s …
The Place We Went to Yesterday – Reader Q&A
If you’ve been following along this week, then you’ve learned quite a bit about The Place We Went to Yesterday, and more about our main character – Ella Santia. What you might still be wondering is whether this poor young woman …
The Place We Went to Yesterday – Reader Q&A
Anyone that knows me knows that there is a soft spot in my heart for the LGBTQ community. Not only because I have many gay friends and family, but because I’ve identified as bisexual for as long as I can …
The Place We Went to Yesterday – Reader Q&A
“What doesn’t kill you, makes you fat” – Esmerelda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican Food is something that is important in a lot of cultures and it is no less important in the various Latino communities. In The Place We …