Ink Sweat and Tears

New short piece, Butterflies are the Souls of Dead Babies
at Ink, Sweat and Tears.

Thank you Charles.

New story at 6S

Very short story Killer Phrase up on Six Sentences today. Thank you Rob.

flashquake

Well here’s me in flashquake. The story had been hanging around in my head for fifteen years before I first wrote it down three years ago.

Since then it has been tweaked and faffed with (I managed to remove another word when I proofed it yesterday) and I’m very protective of it, possibly because there’s more of an autobiographical element to it than other stories I’ve written since. Let’s say I’ve learned the art of using real life as a starting point for fiction, rather than sculpting real life into a different sort of shape, which is what I think I was doing then.

But the process aside, I’m glad this very short story has found such an esteemed home and thanks to Mary Estrada at flashquake for making it her ‘Editor’s Pick’.

Tell me how you write …

Thanks to the lovely Teresa Stenson for giving me the opportunity to contribute to her series Tell Me How You Write. I’m Part 3, and over on her blog today, click here to read …

Flash Warning: Visibility Poor

My new story:
Flash Warning: Visibility Poor, is online at Metazen!

Thanks Frank

6S Vol 2: imminent

OK. What am I up to? Writing mainly. Editing. Neglecting other things (apart from cats, husbands – sorry, that should be in the singular – and plants). I am definitely ignoring the floor. Looking forward to arrival of 6S Vol 2, and as ever entertained by Robert’s trailer …

Goldfish Press

Two poems, Persistence of Memory and At the End of the Promenade accepted for the forthcoming Goldfish Press anthology, The World According to Goldfish.

A huge thanks to Debra Marler!

6S Vol 2

Just heard via http://tinyurl.com/c7q5r7, Down to Earth has been accepted for inclusion in Six Sentences Vol 2. In print March 2009.

Oh joy!