Decisions at Tainted Tea

Tainted Tea's Spring Issue is out! Featuring my winning flash fiction story, Decisions, and other stories by David Massengill, Joseph Haeger, and Chris Yodice. Also includes dispicable, lovely art by Undead Ed (you know you wanna see it).

Tainted Tea's lovely website, blog, and ezine is put together and edited by Kris Fossett and Shane R. Toogood. Their winter mag made #11 out of 100 for horror ezines on Lulu. Woohoo!

A sincere THANK YOU to you both.

*I lvoe loev LOVE the way you formatted 'Decisions' and the art!*


Buy.

Submit.

Drink some Tainted Tea...

Riptide

My Seaside Flash entry, Riptide, earned an honorable mention at Brain Droppings! Congrats to Winner ~ Lily Mulholland ~ and 1st and 2nd place runner ups, Michael Solender and Cathy Olliffe. Thank you to Laurita Miller for holding a fun contest. All the entries are up at her site right now. Great writes. Support Imagination --> READ.

Other News

This baby mourning dove was rescued by a little girl down the street. She found it cuddled to its dead sibling in the hot afternoon sun (100 degrees).

The girl knows I'm a bird lady, so she brought it to me. I've been feeding the chick a special Jodi blend with a syringe. It seems to be over the shock, and is happy as can be. SO CUTE. I had to share.

Disenchanted Evening At Flashes In The Dark

Flashes In The Dark is holding a Lycanthropy Contest! It ends on April 21st, so you still have time to enter.

My story

Disenchanted Evening

is up today! Please stop by for a read & thrill.
(Thank you to editor, Lori Titus!)




For those of you who are curious about the musical roots of this story and want to watch some half decent videos. Here you go. (Be sure to mute the music player below)

Original Song this story was inspired by


Between evenings of writing the story, I listened and watched

Sara Brightman and Antonio Banderas sing Phantom of The Opera

(Note: I love Sara Brightman's voice, but she's a terrible actor.)

This video and music inspired the setting

Into The Ocean By October Blue



And well, I don't know. Why the heck not? Just your typical ravenous werewolf music

Some Enchanted Evening (Original South Pacific Song)

Spindled Souls wins the Worst In Love Contest!

I happily spring from the cave to announce the scarecrow folk died for a worthy cause at Flashes In the Dark. Read FiTD's announcement here!

WOOHOO!

You can read my entry Spindled Souls here.

Congrats to the other winners and their fab stories!

First Place: Jodi MacArthur, Spindled Souls

Second Place: Laura Eno, Ironies

Third Place: Sean Monaghan, Fiancees Among Us

****

Honorable Mentions:

Graeme Reynolds, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore

Erin Cole, Barracuda Hearts

Many thanks to editor Lori Titus.

My First Interview!

Every Sunday, Flashes In The Dark editor, Lori Titus, interviews an author. I feel so honored, privileged, humbled, and blushing that she not only asked me for an interview (wow!) but also chose to feature it on the first Sunday of 2010. Thank You SO much, Lori!

You can read the
FitD interview here!

Thank you so much to all of you, dear readers,writers, and editors who've been such a big support for me the last two years. I am so blessed.

Spindled Souls At Flashes In The Dark

A sea of cornstalks separates them.

Wind carries their secrets.

Change has come.

But not the kind they were hoping for.

Spindled Souls

At Flashes In The Dark
(A Worst In Love contest entry)

Thank you, as always, to the wonderful editor, Lori Titus.
Happy New Years Everyone!

Note: Due to stormy weather, the lines have been down. My internet is completely off. At&t is fiddling around. So I won't be able to get back to comments right away. Enjoy!