Yippee! I made Round 3 of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest! My assignment for this round was: Genre: Horror Location: A Laboratory Object: A Toy Train Without further ado, then… My Round 3 Entry for the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Competition Doorways It began on a Tuesday evening, three… Continue reading
Ahem. Hello! Below is my story for Round 2 of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest (For an explanation of the contest, click on the link!). My assignment this time was: Genre: Horror (yes!) Location: A Foreclosed Home Object: A Rabbit’s Foot Word limit was 1000 words. I think my… Continue reading
Hey! So, I like writing contests. In fact, I love them. There is something about them that really gets my creativity flowing. It might be the pressure, or the deadline, or the distant possibility of fabulous prizes; whatever it is, I love it. So, I have paid my money in… Continue reading
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UPDATE: I am noticing that, ever since I explained that I didn’t like writing book reviews in my post My Favorite Mystery Writers: A List, I have been getting ever closer to writing them. Which is weird. Hello! So, I spend way too much time on the Internet Archive (www.archive.org;… Continue reading
I don’t generally like thrillers. There are, of course, some exceptions to this rule; for example, Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris, is a both a damn fine book and a thriller. However, most thrillers I have attempted to read are both dull and alarming. They seem to lack whimsy and… Continue reading
Hey there! So, sometimes I submit stories to various people, in the hope that I will receive money and Increased Visibility by so doing. It may sound sordid, but it is actually quite good fun, and I now recommend it as a health-tonic to those in my circle of acquaintances… Continue reading
…And this one also has a lot of narrative power. I swear, these messages are getting closer and closer to making actual sense. Here is the full text of the message, sent by one “Hermes Birkin bags Cheap,” in response to my post E Is For… Evidence: “Night pupil issued… Continue reading
I like wearing shoes. I feel inadequately clad without them. Also, exposed, vulnerable, and other words expressing feelings of that sort. That said, I will remove my shoes willingly when I am entering a House Of Shoelessness. No problem; it is the custom of the place, and the house is… Continue reading
We at Atherton’s Magic Vapour like to save you, our readers, trouble, whenever we can do so without much trouble ourselves. As a public service, therefore, I present my boyfriend’s summary of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. I do this to spare you, my devoted readers (there are seven of you,… Continue reading
I recently purchased an iPad. My journey towards this purchase was, I imagine, a fairly typical one. First, I spent years sneering at the concept of the iPad, denying that an iPad could be either fun or useful, thumping my womanly chest and brandishing my Kindle in the air while… Continue reading
