It’s half past midnight; I should be in bed. I can never manage this go-to-sleep early thing, even on work nights… *sigh* But before I rush off to brush my teeth and do my physiotherapy exercises (for my neck/back), a quick rec: inkscrawl is a lovely poetry magazine, publishing speculative poetry of ten lines or […]
Month: August 2013
Flash fiction is rewarding
I went to check out a wonderful art installation by the Helsinki coast today, involving a huge collection of intriguing instruments made so that the wind played them. It was ethereal, gorgeous – wind-spirits singing! As a result, I got inspired for a stuck-in-space sci-fi story. I wrote the first part on my mobile phone […]
‘The Understanding’ out in Plunge Magazine
My poem ‘The Understanding’ is online in the second issue of Plunge Magazine, a zine publishing “quality genre literature, poetry, and essays about queer women” (as declared on their About page). Read ‘The Understanding’ here! It’s what I call a “secondary-world manuscript edition”. This one’s a translation/edition of a Middle Argental chassiolet, written by a […]
Fuzzy but finished
My hands and forearms are tingling and aching a bit; my brain is tired, fuzzy but pleased. I finally finished the first draft of the short-story-turned-novelette that I mentioned here! Word count: almost 14,000. Ooops. The word count will most likely go down a bit during the editing process, because there’s loose stuff and fluff […]
Sunday recs: Zombies, gender fluidity, alternative families
Time for Sunday recs! I’ve been reading some excellent stuff lately – poetry too, but let’s go for prose first. Story recs So, zombies are pretty much everywhere these days, but I haven’t actually read that much zombie fiction. (My consumption has been in the form of comics and films.) This story in Niteblade is […]
Poetry sale: Through the Gate
Today’s been a lovely Friday despite the tiredness (it has been incredibly difficult to get my night owl sleep rhythm adjusted to my 9-to-5 job after my holiday). Some of the loveliness: My poem ‘Boat-husk’ will be published in the fourth issue of Through the Gate. I’m very happy about this! Through the Gate is […]