• Going with the Flow.

    Maybe one of these weeks, I’ll stop being so proud of my ability to just go with the flow, but it’s not happening yet. It’s a pretty big deal for me to just release my tight grip on wanting to make things go a certain way and instead go with the way the wind blows,…

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  • Oh, shit. I was so wrapped up in the new story I started today that I just about nearly forgot to make my Monday post today! I might have completely skipped it out of negligence if I hadn’t received a rejection email and got up to mark it on the board, and it rushed back…

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  • In general, I try not to show too much preference between one World Unknown Review story and another. I have the esteemed privilege of receiving dozens and dozens of great stories every year, more and more as the review gains momentum. But sometimes a story come along that makes me want to break that restraint…

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  • Whoo-hoo! Halloween!

    This weekend, I did the unthinkable. I took a day off. Not at my paying job, but at writing. I was up for a full 23 hours, since I actually had an opening shift at the day job, which meant no time for my usual morning writing routine. The boyfriend and I carpooled, and my…

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  • Working from Home.

    Drifting around the internet while waiting for the boyfriend to get out of work, I came across this article from Career Girl Daily whose title caught my eye: “How to Create a Routine When Working from Home.” Now, I feel I’ve wrangled down a pretty good routine for myself already, but I was curious what…

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  • A True Weekend.

    The concept of a weekend when you work in a shift-based retail job is pretty much nonexistent. Every once in a while, you’ll get two days off in a row, but they’re usually in the middle of the week, so your “weekend” because Tuesday-Wednesday instead of Saturday-Sunday. This weekend, though, I was blessed with the…

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  • An Overachiever in Failure.

    Weather is a strange thing, especially in the Chicago area, but I don’t think I’ve ever recalled a time where it felt so absolutely autumn sweater weather, and yet the temperature was actually around 80 degrees and humid. It messes with my head in an unpleasant way: I feel the need to curl up with…

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  • Jennifer White’s story, “The Haunted Note“, may be the shortest one in 2015’s World Unknown Review, but it deinitely strikes a chord. (I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself!). It’s also perfect for October with its moody tone and the significance of Halloween. And, naturally, I wanted to “sit down” (in the virtual sense!) with the…

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  • 30+ and Counting!

    This week has been a good week. Not a great week, although some great things have happened. And I’ve got a pretty good feeling that this coming week is going to be pretty great, too. It’s been a little off, due to a variety of things, none of them big things, but still steady. And…

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  • “The Alley.”

    I’ve mentioned it a few times, but October has turned out to be quite the prolific month for me. Earlier, I was able to spew happily about my story “Sleepwalker,” which makes an appearance in Potter’s Field 6, and today is the blessed day I get to announce that my story “The Alley” is currently…

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