Frances
Mirrorball coming next year
Mirrorball, an anthology of writing inspired by Taylor Swift's Folklore coming soon to a bookshelf near you! EastOver Press will publish...
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Frances
Aug 2, 20231 min
August
August of anxiety, August of anticipation. August of projects summer didn't complete. August in our house also means three significant...
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Frances
Jan 31, 20232 min
The Distinct Clack of CD cases
I grew up in a bookstore that also sold records and cds. Edit to add: I was (I think) 14 when Books, Strings & Things opened on the...
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Frances
Jan 16, 20231 min
Novel progress
I spent a couple of days at Semiahmoo Resort over the holiday break writing, thinking about writing, organizing my novel, setting up a...
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Jan 14, 20233 min
Our Bellingham Origin Story Starts Here
I met them at the Community of Writers in California. Summer of 1998, a strangely cool August. Leonid meteor shower just over Squaw Peak,...
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Jan 11, 20231 min
Apricity
I have given up precious words of the year because, really, I don't remember my Word of the Year in July when I'm going through it. There...
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Oct 31, 20211 min
Already stressed about nanowrimo
Still gonna do it. My novel began as a NaNoWriMo project, formed from an idea I conjured after crying a lot at work one day back in...
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Oct 4, 20212 min
Everyone I miss
It's been a rough, rough two years. I lost my dad just before COVID crept over to the U.S. I lost my friend Michael shortly thereafter. I...
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Sep 29, 20213 min
Watching Paint dry
I don't exactly know how or why it happened—I don't even know what day it was—but for reasons that are part mystery part pandemic brain,...
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Jul 2, 20212 min
Movie Script Ending
Tim wasn't always the kindest, gentlest soul. He would be the first to admit that he was prickly, often misanthropic, frustrated by the...
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May 10, 20211 min
Night of Rainbows
The light after the rainstorm was perfect—low and golden, lighting up the horizon and filling the sky with rainbows. Rainbows are...
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Dec 15, 20201 min
Saying Goodbye to Nadine
She would want this to be hilarious, but there's just nothing funny about losing her. Our bright, brilliant Shouter...
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Dec 2, 20201 min
Trampled
We're all feeling a bit worn down right now. But there's hope shining through the holes.
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Nov 26, 20201 min
To thank, to be thanked
Gratitude journals are for the winsome and sad scrabbling for hope. Here's mine. On politics—it can feel impossible and not be, not by a...
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Nov 20, 20202 min
Meat sticks, mustard, and Jesus
1978 haunted my mailbox with a ghost of Christmas past. Mom, is that you? The year: 1978. The scene: an overwarm kitchen in Virginia with...
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Nov 2, 20201 min
Election Anxiety
Is anyone calm right now? I washed the windows today as the Germans taught me—no Windex (sorry, dad)—just dish soap and water. I dusted....
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Sep 19, 20201 min
August Slipped Away
Like a bottle of wine. 'Cause you were never mine. It was a summer of recovering from injury, of discovering new places and secret...
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Sep 16, 20201 min
Finalist fever
I don't think of it as not-winning, I think of it as almost-winning. Maybe that says a lot about me, but I was the finalist for the Black...
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Frances
Apr 1, 20201 min
A story to share
X-R-A-Y has just an amazing thing going. They celebrate beautifully condensed flash with brilliant images, flash that stops your heart. I...
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