by Guest Author | Mar 17, 2021 | All Posts, Guest Authors, Poems
I love being aloneSolitude keeps me saneI love staying in my little dark roomWhere I can keep all my fears and insecurities at bayI love being in the confines of my wallsWhere the only person I converse to is meSomehow loneliness isn’t much of a bother to me. I...
by Guest Author | Mar 10, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
Mia knelt under the kitchen table in her She-Ra pajamas, resting her chin in her hands. She watched a knothole in the baseboard as Mama’s sewing machine purred like a giant kitten above her. The floor was cold, and the pawnshop space heater did little to fight the...
by Guest Author | Mar 3, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
I met my transition man today. Friends tell me it won’t last, but for now, he’s exactly what I need. Unlike my husband, he’s tall and dark and uber-Christian. All day long, he has conversations with God, alternately mumbling or laughing out loud at jokes only he and...
by Guest Author | Feb 24, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
Emma sat down to eat the supper her mother had left her: corn chips and dip. The dip was made from leftover spaghetti sauce, salsa, and cream cheese. Her mother was the queen of throwing random things together and calling it a meal. What if I don’t eat any of the...
by Guest Author | Feb 17, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
“…offering outstanding comfort sir, thanks to the massage leather seats and state of the art air con system.” Dom snapped to his senses just in time to hear the end of the salesman’s protracted description of the gleaming, black Jaguar which stood before them....
by Guest Author | Feb 10, 2021 | All Posts, Guest Authors, Poems
I don’t know you anymore.I don’t know if I ever truly did.But I know where I stand now,and while I don’t stand against you,I won’t stand with you anymore.And if that makes me a traitor in your eyes,If this is what I have to do to strive,then I...
by Guest Author | Feb 3, 2021 | All Posts, Guest Authors, Writing Tips
I think of writing as a deep search for connections. I spend the next 80,000 words exploring the threads and revealing them to the reader. Sometimes, I let them piece some of it together. The threads lead me on. The story shows the colours. Out of an inky dark...
by Guest Author | Jan 20, 2021 | All Posts, Guest Authors, Writing Tips
The year 2020 was a year most like to forget. Last year was not all that different for me since I deal with suicidal and depressive modes on and off. And in recent years, I discovered I am autistic. Writing was on the back burner for me. The most I accomplished...
by Guest Author | Jan 13, 2021 | All Posts, Guest Authors, Writing Tips
Writing can be a lonely business. Obviously, it’s a task you have to do on your own, but is it really ALL by yourself? If you want to succeed and retain your sanity, there are several groups of people you need in your corner to make up your writing community:...
by Guest Author | Jan 6, 2021 | All Posts, Guest Authors, Writing Tips
There has been a true backlash of sorts in the past few decades against what are considered fantasy tropes. This counter-archetype revolution seems to have spawned the popularity of the “grim-dark” subgenre in fantasy fiction. It became quite vogue to write against...
