Category Tales from the Front

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Jewelry Program being CUT?!

Y’all. I found about this on Sunday, and it’s being discussed TODAY in the board meeting. Needlessly to say, I have OPINIONS on an art program being cut. Here’s the letter I sent (and if you’re so inclined, please feel…

Choice in the time of COVID-19

At the end of the day, life is about choices. A lot of conflict comes from the removal of choice, when we are pressured into doing something because there is no other option. Those choices should never come with a…

Seizing the Means of Production

Time to finally sit down and process a lot of what’s been going on in the gaming industry in the last *mumbles* months. Stay a while and listen. (It’s really long, apparently I have a lot of things to get…

Random Writing #4: Urban Fantasy

“If you didn’t want people to think you’re weird, you went to the wrong part of town,” Mirabelle commented. She dabbed at the cut on Ruben’s face–wholly unnecessarily, but habit was habit. She told herself it was to get dirt…

Random Writing #3: Riding Shotgun

“Hey. Wake up–you slept through your alarm again.” Jo bolted awake, flinging the comforter off her body. The lumpy body pillow that she had somehow managed to twist around her legs proved to remarkably efficient at preventing her from getting…

Random Writing #2

I mentioned previously making attempts to get over my writer’s block, so here’s another piece. I used the Story Engine, which is a delightful way to generate story prompts. (Have I mentioned I love random generators? I really do. Patrons…

BEGIN: Life Update

So the last five months have been a lot. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to really express my feelings about the whole hot mess, and hopefully this word vomit will help. Me, Myself, and ADHD I was…

Writing

I have a longer update coming, but in the meantime, please enjoy this bit of Friday Freewriting from my “Writing Magical Realism” class. — The gentle whisper of the falling leaves left a susurrus in the crisp fall air. They…

I Live!

It’s been a wild six months since I last posted anything here. I’ll have a fuller announcement soon(ish), but in the meantime, please enjoy one of my homework assignments.