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December 2025 Writing Prompts!

| November 28, 2025

It’s time for the December 2025 writing prompts, and this month, I’m doing a little something different! The first image and first column of words are a throwback to 2017, which was the first time I did December writing prompts on this blog! This is a list that was designed for six-word stories, but you […]

“Best of Both Worlds” in Chimerical Remembrance

| November 20, 2025

My story “Best of Both Worlds” in Chimerical Remembrance is one of my favorite stories I’ve written. It manages to blend dark elements of a selkie story with a hopeful ending. If you’re a regular reader of the blog or my stories, you know I enjoy writing stories with things in the water that want […]

Review of ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction

| November 19, 2025

ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction, edited by Marissa Van Uden (Apex Book Company, 2025), is a collection of previously published stories from a wide variety of venues that look at a variety of issues related to climate change, capitalism, and colonialism, along with other aspects of ecological fiction. A number of the stories in […]

A Brief Hiatus

| November 3, 2025

I’m posting today to announce a brief hiatus from daily blogging. I’ll still have posts every now and then, which will mostly be book reviews and other important announcements, at least until I can get back in to my regular swing of things. 2025 has been an incredibly hectic year for me, and I’m finally […]