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“The Toad Catcher’s Wife” in Conceits of Whim and Fancy

| August 18, 2022

“The Toad Catcher’s Wife” was another of my Drawlloween pieces, this one with a prompt of toad. And, as expected, the toad starts out with a witch, but there’s a bit of a twist on the curse placed on this particular toad. It took a bit of work to get this story just right, but […]

January 2022 Publications

| February 10, 2022

Already this year, I’ve had five things published–four stories and a poem! “Good to the Last Drop” is a microfiction piece that appeared in the January issue of The Antihumanist. It’s a darkly humorous story about coffee and space travel. My poem, “Slime, or Primordial Ooze?” was published in the January issue of Star*Line. This […]