Poetry is So Exciting

If anyone’s reading my stories naked and in public, they’re not telling me. But things are a little different for Elizabeth McClellan.

If the South Would Have Won, Would Hank Have Had It Made?

One thing I love about the internet is that you can have primary sources right at your fingertips within seconds, so when you’re writing about Hank Jr., you can pull up a copy of the Constitution of the CSA and read through it. I wasn’t very familiar with it. But it’s kind of cool to [...]

The World Is Strange

Oh, sure, it’s only October, month of frost, usually. Let’s have the morning glories bloom now. No problem, morning glories. I’m sure this strategy of blooming after all the bugs have given up for the year will work out swell. I’ve been working some on the Sue Allen project. This is a strange first draft. [...]

I’m Ready for Those Darlins to Be Superstar Famous

Spin has their new video. Fun fact: that bridge at the beginning of the video is the same bridge that’s in the video below. That bridge may also be in other videos, but none are coming to mind.

Heartbreaking

This has got to be the nightmare adoption scenario. My heart just breaks for every single person involved in this and it makes me so angry.

Invisible Women

1. Jonathan Franzen takes inspiration only from himself. 2. Dorothy Cooper can’t vote and this is a fundraising opportunity. No, no, not to raises funds to get Cooper to the DMV. I swear to god, things like this make me want to quit political blogging. Who stands around asking themselves “How can this woman’s injustice [...]

Oh Lord

So, this happened. Very close to where that thing didn’t happen to me. Or did. I don’t know. Isn’t that the thing about almosts? I felt like that dude had ill intentions. And yeah, he grabbed for me, but he left when I was like “Hell no” and I told the people in the community [...]

Could the Voter ID Experiment Be Any More Ridiculous?

First, a 96 year old woman can’t get her voter ID because, and I quote, “We may have been able to make some phone calls from the center to verify what her married name is. She is saying it’s Cooper, but her birth certificate does not list Cooper as her married name.” This raises a [...]

So, This is Weird

I was sitting here at my desk this morning just working away, getting ready for this meeting that I’m afraid is going to complicate my life this afternoon, when I get an email from my dad. Attached is something he’s written, a kind of descriptive non-fiction thing about when things are scariest. I honestly wasn’t [...]

Crack Dealing as Business Model

Yesterday someone said “I cant believe you give this stuff away for free” talking about “The Witch’s Friend.” Frankly–heh–I’m still in shock that someone paid me for “Frank.” Floundering around all summer with “Flock,” trying to figure out what to do with it and how, it was/is, to put it mildly, not easy. I think [...]

Brief Things Briefly

1. It’s funny that Ramsey is such a Perry supporter, because this is literally how I imagined Ramsey in every gubernatorial debate–pew pew! 2. I guess I always assumed there was an 11 and a 12 that moved up into the top ten as guys were removed from the list. Are we really short two [...]

Chapters

I’m reading Sandman Slim because I read an excerpt from the third book in the series and thought it sounded interesting, so I’m reading this book. I’m liking it so far, though it somehow feels paced too quickly and not quickly enough. I don’t quite know how to explain it. I think one of the [...]

“Oooo” and “Ugh”

Ooooo, people I have been about to throw up all day because yesterday, after my trip to the park, I noticed that my car smelled bad whenever I was standing at a stop light. And this morning, it did it again. And on the way home. And my dad said it was probably a leaky [...]

Presenting: “The Witch’s Friend”

First, there were all the real ghost stories I could think of, and then there were all the ghost stories I could make up. This year, in honor of the Halloween season, I give you “The Witch’s Friend“–a tale of a god, a grandma, a little girl, and the biker gang that ties them together. [...]

Handmade and Bound and McCabe Park

Let Me Say One Thing about Perry’s Ranch

The only other time I ever heard that phrase was when I lived in Illinois. It was used to refer to the rocks that would get stuck in the dredging equipment on the Mississippi and Illinois (and possibly other rivers, but it was only when I was living by those rivers that I heard it [...]

“How Pornstars get Squirrel Irgasms”

I will pay you. Not a lot because I don’t have a lot, but some, if you can explain to me what that phrase means. That, my friends, brought someone to Tiny Cat Pants today. The weirdest part is that I typed “how pornstars get squirrel irgasms” into Google and Tiny Cat Pants isn’t even [...]

Beta-Testing

I’ll do some kind of official launch on Monday, but if you want something maybe creepy to read this weekend, “The Witch’s Friend” is available for beta-testing. Do you beta-test fiction? I guess we do now. Before you click, let me just say that it is violent. Terrible things happen very near a child. If [...]