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Weekly Short Fiction Round-Up #7
This week has only four stories to share. I read a few blog posts about books and reading. Follow me on Twitter and Facebook to see other topics. A 20 minute read at 4063 words, Fireside published Mouth & Marsh, Silver & Song by Sloane Leong. 630 mL by Tony Pisculli published at The Arcanist. The Arcanist published Another…
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Weekly Short Fiction Round-Up #6
Weekly round-ups will post on Mondays until I decide to change them. This week’s was delayed due to the catch-up round-up posts. From the first week of February, here are seven stories I read. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner. Wyldblood published The Dark Forest Takes by Dawn Vogel. Cowtown by Aeryn Rudel…
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“Weekly” Short Fiction Round-Up #5
This last catch-up post on short fiction is eleven stories long. Tomorrow will be the delayed post for this week. Future posts will appear every Monday. Today we start with The Goodwill Ghost by Sophia Sanchez published at Every Day Fiction. Peat Moss and Oil for Burning by A.B. Young is published at Baffling Magazine.…
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Round-up of Short Fiction #4
Ten more short fiction stories that I’ve read over the past few months and enjoyed. Why We Make Monsters by Rem Wigmore is published by Baffling Magazine. Diabolical Plots published DP FICTION #62A: “A Promise of Dying Embers” by Jordan Kurella. Atomic Bonding by Izzy Steel is published at Every Day Fiction. Constelación Magazine published I, Crocodile by…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #3
I hope you enjoy the stories I am aggregating here as much as I have. Here are ten more. Today we start with From the Deep, the Music Rises by Izzy Wasserstein published by Baffling Magazine. Every Day Fiction published Flowers for Clockwork Street by Jennifer R Fierro. DP FICTION #71A: “Everyone You Know is…
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“Weekly” Short Fiction Round-Up #2
With my goal to catch you up to the short fiction I’ve been reading, here’s the second round-up with ten stories for your reading enjoyment. Fewer of these stories had associated artwork than yesterday’s post. Most of these stories are under 1000 words. Apex Magazine published Super Duper Fly by Maurice Broaddus. This is a 16 minute read…
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Weekly Short Round-Up
Until I have published stories, I’m staying on theme of blogging about other published books and stories. I get to read unpublished stories and I can’t wait until those are out in the wild so I can share them with you, too!I began writing short fiction again recently, so I’ve reading short fiction. I read…
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Reading Reflection January 2021
I read two books in January. My writing craft book was Save the Cat and my fun-read was The Demon’s Pursuit of Mor. My Storygraph is a little odd, but the mix of the books I read follows the above Moods and Pace. Save the Cat by Blake Snyder was recommended to me when I had the opportunity to…
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Reading Reflection on 2020
Blogging Goal: In 2021, I will try to do a monthly summary of books I read via Storygraph. My reading goal for the year 2021 is 36 books. In 2018, I read 50, and in 2019, I read 100. 2020: In 2020, I read somewhere between 30 and 40 books. In general, the “adventure,” “dark,” “informative,” and…
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Writerly Review of 2020 and onto 2021 Goals
What I accomplished in 2020NovelI completed my novel, Slipping, at the tail end of 2019. I spent the first three months of 2020 trying to get people to read it for feedback. I chased friends who I thought would be good because they read so much and so fast. What I needed were other authors.…