The House Remains

received an honorable mention in Beate Sigriddaughter’s Ghost Story Competition.

“The path to the front door is squeezed between the house and a concrete wall that keeps the sloping garden out. The concrete is grainy and the cracks bulge with soft, green moss. The front door opens to the basement…”

Thank you very much to Beate and the judges of the Ghost Story competition!

Check out the winning stories, especially the beautiful and evocative The Secret Truth of Towel-Folding, by Louise Beech.

(Image by: Unknown.)

140 And Counting

is an anthology of twitter-sized literature of 140 characters or less.

The stories range from literary fiction to haiku and other poetry to speculative fiction. They are evocative, sad, funny, scary, beautiful or thoughtful, just like normal-sized stories.

My story The Mind Spy is included in the anthology.

Now out on Kindle from Upper Rubber Boot Books.

Smashwords/Nook format coming soon.

I love the light and the building and the sky in this picture.

It resembles the light here in the spring and fall.

Image: Castle Schaloen in the Netherlands, taken by Hans Viveen.

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What Girls Really Think

new flash in Jules Just Writes, writer Jules Archer‘s blog.

“They sat inside the smell of dead seagull, bleach and formaldehyde, beneath the mute stares of a stuffed red fox and a mounted brown and white marten that bared their small teeth ineffectually at the void.

The middle-aged museum taxidermist scrunched up his face, leaned forward and asked in a reverent tone:
“Do you get a lot of attention from boys?”"

Read the rest of the story here.