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Halfway through. The end is about two chapters away. Ready to rewrite by the time I get back from NY. Not sure how much work I’ll get done there. Here’s what I wrote today. Come Halloween icicles hung from the fire escapes and the condemned notices on the halfway house were illegible beneath the dark…
in which I talk about Laird Barron, Don DeLillo, Shirley Jackson and others. Here is a taste but you can read more at LitReactor. Image courtesy of LitReactor. When my kids were little we had a family fun game called “Death Scenes.” We’d gather in the back yard or in the playing fields behind our…
Author Nick Kaufman has me on his blog to talk about the scariest part of writing Aletheia. It couldn’t end at that moment of total narrative collapse, but it was really difficult for me to see beneath its broken structure at that point. And there was another thing. It wasn’t just the story that had…
My uncle and aunt drive us down to the launch and they are there in the back with my husband and cousin – sirens and choppers overhead as soon as I start to read – I’m last. I talk about the Proctor Valley monster with Lizz Huerta after the reading. She grew up with it….
This is one of the courses that makes me love teaching as much as writing. My students routinely go on to publish stories workshopped here, which makes me happy.Magic realism, Gothic weird, bizarro, slipstream… let’s face it, what fiction, at its heart, isn’t weird AF? Here is a peak into what I mean. Plus, you’ll…
Along with my story Union Falls. It’s here.
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