Here's a story. Several years ago, I received a free pass to AWP. The conference was being held in New York and because Sarah Lawrence was a sponsor, they had some passes to give away to students. I was delighted to have the chance to attend, and I rode the train into the city in my favorite red dress, loving trains, loving …
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As the month comes to a close, I thought I would share some of the praise Queers Destroy Fantasy! has received from reviewers. I suppose I won't sound impartial if I say it's well-deserved, but, in all seriousness, this is a killer issue, featuring some excellent stories and truly gorgeous artwork, and I'm honored to be in such …
I'm delighted beyond words to say I have a story, "The Lady's Maid", in Queers Destroy Fantasy! I'm pleased the story's found a home in such a great series, and in good company, too: there are stories by Catherynne M. Valente and Caitlín R. Kiernan, among others, as well as bunch of great essays from …
I'm happy to say I recently had an academic essay published in The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World, co-edited by my good friend Jeff and our former IU professor Michael Dylan Foster. Jeff and I first started working on our essay in this volume, about how Harry Potter treats folklore, several years …
The New Yorker recently posted the first of three essays on writing by Shirley Jackson, "Memory and Delusion," from a forthcoming collection of Jackson's work, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings. My friend Vanessa shared the link on Facebook, and while the whole thing is well worth a read, I wanted …
I'm very proud to announce that The Golden Key released our sixth issue this week! The theme is "hidden things" and the issue features lots of great speculative fiction and poetry, including flash fiction selected by the wonderful Karin Tidbeck as part of TGK's first flash fiction contest, as well as gorgeous illustrations by kAt …
Today I read: Two things come to mind now, as I look back. First, I did not enjoy this sex outside, this sex with the tiny possibility of discovery; it did not, in any way, match my desires or my comfort level, and the second part is maybe that was the point. It was distracting …
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Today I read: The numbers move sluggishly through her head in single file, like people in a line at the post office or at the bank or at the discount supermarket where you can only pay with cash so the line is always long and she is always frustrated by the time she reaches the …
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Six sentences for Sunday, June 28: She practices breathing the way the nurse at the hospital showed her, breathing in deep through her nose and holding the breath until her lungs flex with the urge to exhale, then breathing slowly until the air is thin between her lips. She hears the instructions in the nurse’s …
In honor of yesterday's Supreme Court's ruling in favor of marriage equality, today's reading recommendation comes from Lightspeed's Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue: Now: she is home, and leaning her head against her living room window at twilight, and something in the thrill of that blue and the cold of the glass against her …
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