Flash fiction: “A Perfect Gentleman”
“A Perfect Gentleman” is another one of the experimental flash prose pieces I wrote in graduate school. It’s based on my frequent personal experience with opening doors for men and how they react to it.
Flash nonfiction: “The Finicky Eater”
“The Finicky Eater” is one of a handful of experimental flash prose pieces I wrote in graduate school. I’ll be posting others over the coming weeks.
“A Night at the Babysitter’s House”
This is the first story I wrote for my first unpublished manuscript, a collection of interrelated stories called The Tabitha Times.
”Playing House” is also part of that manuscript.
A kiss-off letter becomes a poem
A now-former friend told me she has no sympathy for anybody who joins the military for any reason. Upon hearing this, I literally fell out in tears. Days later, she emailed me an apology that showed she still didn’t recognize the wrongness of her statement. The kiss-off email I wrote back turned into a poem.
Old writing on my new website
A new addition to my website is an old poem I wrote probably the day after Michael Jackson’s death. The Twin Cities Pride Festival was that weekend, and I read this poem during my appearance at the Power to the People Stage, a performance space at the festival created by and for BIPOC queer people.
I love dragonflies
Here’s a picture of a dragonfly in my yard. I love dragonflies.
You’ve got three days to get a free book
The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale will be over on August 1, so that gives you three days to get a free ebook copy of Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time.
My first website blog post
This is a test post for the blog on my new website. Hopefully, there will be more to come!