• Dating As a Demiromantic part 4: Emotional Labor and Dating Fears

    I made the mistake of trying to date again. Now that work is calming down, and the summer markets are over, I have weekends free for dates. I thought it might be a good idea to branch out, and start playing the field. I opened up my dating app again, and started sorting through my…

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  • Anxious Perfection

    Anxious Perfection

    I become obsessed with perfection when my anxiety spikes. Filling every moment of my time with self-improvement tasks, as if I could compensate for my own shameful humanity through diligence. It’s a performance, with myself as the only audience. A dance of of wild precision – a single misstep will bring me crashing down. It’s…

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  • Half-Told Tales: My Incomplete Writing Projects

    Like many writers, I have a backlog of writing. My files and folders are stuffed with projects I’ve started, but abandoned at various stages of development. Short stories and novellas in many genres: speculative horror, suspense, fantasy, and romance, children’s books, and personal essays- all still waiting for their first draft mock-ups. In honor of…

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  • A Different Kind of Self Possessed

    *Trigger warning: mentions of seizures, demonic possession, death, and night terrors* Halloween is approaching, and the veil is thinning. Spooky season is upon us once again, so the time for ghost stories, scary movies, and witchy-workings. Last night, some friends and I had a Halloween Slumber Party (yes, even though we all in our late…

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  • The Pumpkin Cat

    The Pumpkin Cat

    Creeping into the backyard from over the garden wall. Her big orange belly is as round as her tip-toeing paws. Orange swirls like cinnamon on her pumpkin rolls. Asking for pets as she stops by on her daily stroll.

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  • Picturesque October: When rain feels like smooth jazz

    Last week a cold front moved in, bringing in crisp air and ample rain. The skies are silver and gray. The mountains, half hidden by mists, are dusted with snow. Red and gold laves are falling from the trees to dance on the wind. In other words, the landscape is picturesque. Life feels as soothing…

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  • The Well

    The Well

    The well ran dry. Where life once overflowed, only a clanging echo remained. Still, the hopeful still came with their pails. They patiently lowered their empty vessels, into the dark below. For they believed that which is empty can be refilled again.

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  • Walk with the Wind

    Work has been stressing me out. Every morning I start the day with a long to-do list, and every evening I leave with an even longer to-do list for the next day. Between answering client emails, training new hires, management and product development meetings, and doing my actual client work- I feel like my workload…

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  • Like You

    Like You

    He’s nothing like you Excerpt for the way he stands. The same height and casual stance- Wrapped in black jeans.  He’s nothing like you Except for the way he talks. A shouted voice full of mirth When excited in conversation.  He’s nothing like you Except for that face he makes. Dark eyebrows raised, wide mouth…

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  • Autumn Magic Returns

    Autumn Magic Returns

    It’s officially Autumn again. The last few evenings have been chilly, and the moon has been full. If there was ever a time for magic- now would be it. September 20-22 marks the Autumn Equinox; the first day of Fall, and one of two days of each year when the daylight hours are the same…

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