short stories
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Isn’t it interesting how, sometimes, we can be incredibly successful in so many things throughout the day, but then we manage to fail at one minute detail, and all those successes seem to fade into the background to make way for the pressing mar on our otherwise perfect day? That’s how I’m feeling right now,…
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It felt like just yesterday I was sitting here, thinking about my RoW80 goals, musing about how Sunday felt so far away and I had plenty of time to get things done. Then I realized it was Saturday, meaning tomorrow was Sunday, and I had to make sure I had some art to post and…
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“Fantasy doesn’t have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground as much as your head in the clouds. The cute dragon that sits on your shoulder also craps all down your back, but this makes it more interesting because it…
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So, it’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to update. Remember how I was talking a few post back about how Mondays were so nice because it was really the one day I had to myself, to catch up on all my writing and cleaning and everything else. Nope. Wrong. Just as I…
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“There is no greater slavery than love, and Yawgmoth believed her his slave. She knew not love, though, but love’s twin–hate.” “Magic: the Gathering: The Myths of Magic Anthology” edited by Jess Lebow There’s a term for Magic: the Gathering fans such as myself, though I’ll have to ask my boyfriend what it is. See,…
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It’s hard to believe that we’re already half-way into the second week of October, but it’s true. That means the deadline for Submissions for the World Unknown Review is coming up pretty quickly! Submissions will close after October 31st, 2013. At the time of writing this post, I have received no submissions, which means the…
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“The glory of a nation could endure through the ages. What his comrades failed to fully comprehend was that it must be oiled with human blood.” “French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America’s Oldest Bohemia” edited by Joshua Clark I am a huge fan of anthologies, so much so that I’m attempting to start…
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Sometimes, you just need to take a moment to catch up. You see, I’ve had a lot going on, which is why post have been infrequent at best. Work has just exploded to the point where I’ve been charged with taking care of the two top management positions of a struggling store, I’ve got to…
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Over at Mark, Mark posts a lot of very cool, very random images, some of which I find too inspirational to ignore. The other day, he posted this beauty: And I thought, “How perfect!” The imagery, to me, was very “Down the Rabbit-Hole,” which is the theme for the first annual issue of my anthology,…
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I have been sitting on this idea for a while now, since the beginning of the year, and, as we head into June, the middle of the year, I realized that I’d better get my butt moving on it if I wanted to accomplish this idea before 2013’s eventual conclusion (which is likely to happen…
L.S. Engler 