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Red Dress, Blue Dress
I send Blue Dress to class today, because Red went yesterday and if she has to hear Donnie pronounce denizen wrong one more time, she will explode right there into crimson flames. Blue spent the day at home on my bed, reading The Namesake and filling a whole page in my journal with musings about identity. She's too much in her head sometimes. A little forced socialization will be good for her.
She's my Blue Dress, but that's only how I think of her -- today she's wearing a block-print t-shirt I made in art last year and my favorite pair of dark jeans. The part that makes her Blue Dress is where she smiles at the crossing guard and asks how h
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But when is a god satisfied?
There is a whisper of a god beneath my bones
aching, ancient hands grasping
to birth itself from my wreckage.
I jostle it back between
the horrors tucked under my heart.
'Perhaps this is what it means
to have a body?'
Its voice hoarse
from years of neglect,
When I tell it 'no' I hear nothing.
The muffled groans of a god
are not silenced so easily.
'I must find my body,
you must give me what is mine.'
'I will give you nothing.'
'Not yet,' it hisses, mauling the forgotten
pieces of me: abuse and fury,
slick on its tongue.
Soon I shake with rage, curses sprouting
from runaway lips: 'I will give you
nothing more.'
It is then, I decide to
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'Kicking and Screaming' and Other Books
Flash Fiction Month has just ended, which means that (as well as bundling my stories together into a brand new anthology) the task of catching up on everything else that happened during July begins. There’s been a fair bit of news that I would have shared already if there hadn’t been quite so many 3am finishes or 6am starts, and top of the list is probably Kicking and Screaming.
I‘ve gone to a fair bit of effort to spread the word about my crowdfunded novella, Ten Little Astronauts, which was accepted for publication by Unbound at the start of the month. However, somewhat embarrassingly, I completely neglected to mention an
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Historical Fiction Workshop
Official Post Time for the upcoming Historical Fiction Workshop.
Please, guys, do me a favor and "sign up" - it isn´t as though we have limited spaces, but I'd like an advance idea of how many people we're going to have, even if they are only maybes.
What is it?: A 5 week long workshop on historical fiction, complete with exercises and resource guides.
Who can join?: Anyone. There is no experience requirement nor limited space. Please understand that our ability to help in languages other than English is limited, but if your native language is not English and you want to join, note me and we will see what we can work out.
When is it?
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The London Syndicate, Chapter 1: The Trophy
The London Syndicate
Chapter 1: The Trophy
I was in the kitchen brewing a late morning cup of tea when the door opened with a bang.
‘Hastings!’ came the high, energetic voice, followed by the shuffling sound of a hat and coat hung up in the hall. Into the kitchen bustled Hercule Poirot, delight radiating from his face.
‘I have wonderful news, my friend,’ he cried, and before I could step aside he clasped me in a continental embrace. ‘They hate me, Hastings!’
Although completely unable to account for why being hated was a cause for such mirth, I was used to my little friend’s eccentricities. &
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