The Book Stack Shrinks!

Ta Da! My current stack of Books to Read is down to only two books. That won’t last long, though. I think I’m about to add at least one more book to the To Read list. And tomorrow I’m going to the library. (cue happy dance)

Bareness

A writer intent Went to the Internet, To give her poor blog a post. But when she got there, The Internet was bare, And so her poor blog had none. And here’s what I was going to write last night:

Re: Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

I expected Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, Ellen Rupple Shell and In Cheap We Trust to touch opposite sides of the same coin. I thought the latter would be about how it’s good to be cheap, that is, frugal. (Which it was.) I thought this book would be about how others pay the […]

Short Story Club in review

Now that the Short Story club is over, I’d like to thank them all for letting me play. This may seem like a weird comparison, but about halfway through reading these stories started to remind me of Better Investing‘s monthly Stock To Study. When they pick a stock of interest, that doesn’t make it a […]

Giving Thanks

It’s time for giving thanks. So this year, with a writing theme, my thanks:

It’s invasion of the mushrooms, people

Where the mushrooms are growing, now it’s mushrooms upon mushrooms upon mushrooms up there. Since a sea of brown is not a lovely picture, here’s one of the peripheral clumps, so you can see what they look like. I would compare them to tree ears, except those actually grow on trees. I would ignore them […]

Randomness

What have I got to talk about today?

Still juggling

As I mentioned last week, I’m working harder at catching the rejections and turning them into submissions. It’s like juggling with six balls in the air, though. Just in this last week, four stories came back and got sent out again. I feel half tempted to seek out markets that take a long time to […]

Tomatoes just want to be red

Right around the beginning of November, I saw the frost written on the ground and cut down the tomato plant, filling this bowl with green tomatoes. The first three red tomatoes I soon removed and ate. And then the next few to turn red. And the next. And now a whole bunch of little green […]

Re: Throwing Stones

Set in a Chinese-influenced fantasy world, “Throwing Stones,” by Mishell Baker is a slippery story about people with slippery shapes. An unnamed narrator is a man living as a woman in a “teahouse” in the city of Jiun-shi. He/she meets a Tuo, a “goblin” posing as a human being, making a living as a poet. […]