Chapter Forty-Two Faults In grade school, I receive the gift of music in the form of a compilation album called Danger: High Voltage. I love this shiny new vinyl that spirals black and serenades my soul. I watch it spin in awe of this wonderful fancy new thing. It’s mine, all mine. The encore andContinue reading “The Mirror of Me – Chapter Forty-Two – Faults”
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The Mirror of Me
Online Serial Novel Exclusive Past, present, and future intersect to synthesize an elaborate future civilization. Peyton—pulled from a past and a collapsing society into a Utopian future that appears ideal on the surface—relives all times concurrently; her past exploited for education and entertainment purposes; her present weaponized as a catalyst for change; her future unknown.Continue reading “The Mirror of Me”
The Mirror of Me – Chapter Forty-One – Uncertainty
Chapter Forty-One Uncertainty “I feel a bit lightheaded—maybe you should drive…” Wynne tilts her head in confusion while I snort with laughter—this as we stare at the scene overhead. It is late—or early; I’m not sure which. We are in the merging arena, reclined on unactivated cast chairs, alone, high on some sort of psilocybinContinue reading “The Mirror of Me – Chapter Forty-One – Uncertainty”
Bridgerton S2 Thoughts (update)
ADDENDUM—Here (below) is my short season two review (longer review here): Since this became such a large thread, I unrolled it. The original thread is here. Apologies for the typos. I am mad disappointed. Addendum: I wrote more on it here. Here is the season one review. 🙄 I’ll hold my opinion till I watchContinue reading “Bridgerton S2 Thoughts (update)”
Intermission II – The Mirror of Me
It occurred to me the other day that it has been almost two years since I posted an update to this story. I am working on it. It’s taking a lot longer than what I anticipated or wanted, but, so it goes. Art will take as much time as it does. While I’ve been writingContinue reading “Intermission II – The Mirror of Me”
2021 Books Read
This list can be found on Goodreads here. The Duke is Mine by Eloisa James When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James The Mad Earl’s Bride by Loretta Chase The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase Captives of the Night by LorettaContinue reading “2021 Books Read”
2020 Books Read
Ransom by Julie Garwood (Review) The Bride by Julie Garwood (Review) Heart of a Warrior by Johanna Lindsey The Heir by Johanna Lindsey The Dark Lady by Maire Claremont Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey (Review) Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney (Review) The Warmth ofContinue reading “2020 Books Read”
Recalibrate – Chapter Ten – Dear Prudence
Chapter Nine – Dear Prudence The first time was the hardest. Waves of pain penetrated still through the many iterations; weeks, months, days—had it been a year already? Jay shuddered remembering each as if it were the first—all things cold and hard bared in an abrupt breach that she still had yet to elude. ItContinue reading “Recalibrate – Chapter Ten – Dear Prudence”
Book Review: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine When I began devising A Mirror of Me, I wanted a character that reacted occasionally to the world around her with a rhymed poem. I did not want her to be that poetically skilled, but authentically awkward and passionate—though brilliant at most everything else, her poetry is meantContinue reading “Book Review: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine”
Hear to Slay Podcast Review
Starring Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom, this podcast is sublime and so worth the annual membership. With two seasons and 75 hour packed episodes, Dr. Gay and Dr. McMillan Cottom educate and deconstruct Black feminism down to its very core with such insightful wisdom and dark puckish wit, you’ll wonder how we ever gotContinue reading “Hear to Slay Podcast Review”