Under Mountains in the Moon
I haven’t been able to read Sunny Moraine’s new story, “It Is Healing, It Is Never Whole” in Apex yet. This upsets me, because I typically dig Sunny’s work. Last night, I stood shivering after coming out of the pool. Water sluiced off goose-bumped legs even after I wrapped my towel around me. It’s cold […]
August Books
Every birthday, I treat myself to a stack of books. I find it amusing that people often have trouble gifting me with things, because there are so many books I don’t yet possess. When in doubt, a book is an absolute joy. When I saw Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace publish this past spring, I […]
Valley
I’ve been catching up on House of Cards S3. In one episode, Frank plays game on his iPad — a quick search told me he was playing Monument Valley; a quick search also told me I would love it. Ambient music, shifting Escher structures, and rules that only made sense once you looked at them […]
Blow the Moon Out
The woods were not lovely, though I would grant them both dark and deep as we wound our way closer to Philadelphia to see Jackson’s Unreal Circus and Mobile Marmalade. It was the best of all possible worlds: Halloween had come and gone, but the weekend stretched ahead and with it, a chunk of treasured, […]
July Books
Sometimes, you cross paths with books that are so marvelous, you want to inhale them whole and at the same time, you don’t want to actually finish them. Such was the case with The House of Shattered Wings, from Aliette de Bodard. When Netgalley sent me an early copy, I knew I had to read […]
Wonderland Cake
Things checkerboard remind me of Wonderland — and I’ve always wanted to make a checkerboard cake, but much like basket weave frosting, I felt it was beyond me, because wow, how does that even work. The thing is, once you learn, it’s super easy. Maybe it’s like pulling the curtain back on a magician, but […]
Listening, Being Heard
I’ve thought about this post all week — did I want to write about it, did I not — and as I open this box to write, I am still unsure where it will go. I’ll tag it “womenSFF,” so I have some idea of my direction. (Natalie Luhrs wrote a great and thoughtful piece, […]
Silencer
“Silencer, Head Like a Hole Remix” appears in Issue #259 of Interzone (July 2015). It’s a story I didn’t think would sell to any market. Originally, this idea was a flash piece for a writing group — I wanted to be snarky and swift. Fran Wilde encouraged me to expand it, and the story shook […]
June Books
What I read in June could probably be collected under the genre Girls Going On Adventures. I didn’t plan it that way, it just happened. I wanted to read lighter books, books that seemed to have a sense of fun. Good job, self! And what a great theme for summer, really. Who doesn’t want a […]
Dear Anne Lamott
Dear Anne Lamott, When I first started getting serious about writing, my mom went in search of a book. She would not tell me the name of the book, because she wanted it to be a surprise, but eventually she spilled and told me because she was having trouble finding it and needed to enlist […]