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Reading Reflection for 2nd Quarter 2024
We are half-way through the year and it’s time to update my novel-length reading goals. After coming out of a long reading slump, I kept my goal something I could increase as a goal from last year, but reachable if I fell off my numbers from last year. So far, I’ve read 23 books this…
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Short Story Round-Up #87
I suggested twenty (20) short stories and poems in the month of June on BlueSky and Wandering Shop on Mastodon. Five of them were suggested on my TikTok as well. If you want to see one every day, follow me at those places. Please enjoy these stories! Inner Worlds published: The Memory, by Hussain Ayoub…
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2024 Goal Update #1
Again with the terrible but descriptive titles. I’ve had an epiphany that maybe I need to work on my titles – not only for my blog posts but also my stories. Hmm… Anyway, this update was due on Friday, April 26, 2024. To be honest, I had some struggles in April and just getting through…
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Short Story Round-Up #86
Due to some family obligations and travel, I did not post suggestions the first part of May. In total, I suggested fifteen (15) stories and poems. Auspicium by Diana Dima was published at The Deadlands in February. I loved this story of our internal birds that carry us away when the time is right, and…
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Short Story Round-Up #85
In April, I suggested a total of twenty-two (22) stories and poems. I’d normally have posted this last week, but I was travelling. I apologize for the delay in my round-up. Oh! and a bonus of one of my stories was published in April! The Deadlands published: If I Leave You with Moonlight by Felicia…
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Reading Reflection for Quarter 1 of 2024
I probably need to work on my blog title game as that is quite dull but a descriptive one. It’s also ten days overdue. But better late than never. My goal for this year is to read 36 books, and I’ve already read 14. Two were finished within April, but I’m going to count them…
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Short Story Round-Up #84
In March, I suggested a story every weekday on Wandering Shop and BlueSky for a total of twenty-one (21) poems and stories. Unfortunately some stories I posted have already disappeared off the internet and won’t be in this round-up. A Wedding by Sarcasm Lemons from Santa’s Secret Pen ’21 A bird delivers an unexpected message.…
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Short Story Round-Up #83
February was off to a rocky start with my planned story on the first day of the month leading to a dead website. But I still posted twenty (20) stories I hope you’ll read. Wyldblood Press Flash Fridays published: An Itemized List of Charitable Contributions by Addison Smith in 2022 a story of heartbreak and…
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Short Story Round-Up #82
The first month of 2024 is complete! Time flew by! I’ll admit, I pre-scheduled 3 weeks worth of stories at once due to planned travel abroad. If you follow me on Bluesky, along with the daily suggested stories, you’ll find a photo of me with Himeji Castle. Oh my goodness that is big. Next lesson,…
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Short Story Round-up #81
I decided to skip posting this on the scheduled first day of the year. In December, I suggested twenty-one (21) stories on social media. Here they are all in one post! Hank in the South Dakota Sun by Stephanie Kraner was published in Apex in 2021.A story about a conductor and a train and how…