Rejected by Clarion 2009. Details on LiveJournal. ~CKL
Month: March 2009
It’s about time things started to balance out around here.
The humans have been forcing pills down me for a long time. It must be years now. Jasper never came over to volunteer for the torture instead of me. He always stood out of the way and watched. Until the…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Arcana”
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?And miss it each night and day?I know I’m not wrong; the feeling’s getting strongerThe longer I stay away.Miss them moss-covered vines, the tall sugar pinesWhere mockingbirds used to sing.And I’d…
Reflections on teh RaceFail
My somewhat entirely selfish observation about the whole “RaceFail ’09” debacle is this: I’m really glad I attended Viable Paradise last year, because this year’s class experience is sure to be tainted–if not completely eclipsed–by this stupid thing. (Lucky XIII,…
The Wearing of the Ring
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! This is what I’m wearing today. I may also drink a Guinness later. I may even drink two. To celebrate my Irish heritage, you see. On a side note, I have not been following the…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Martian Standard Time”
“Sean O’Reilly was the first human on Mars. He got to enjoy it for about three seconds…” Read “Martian Standard Time” at 512 Words or Fewer ~CKL
Friday Flash Fiction: “Getaway”
Not much to say about this one. The idea is not new, but then, most ideas aren’t. It’s all in the execution. Read “Getaway” at 512 Words or Fewer ~CKL
Stray humans are not welcome.
I don’t like having people invade my home at the best of times. At least when my humans let them in, I know that they had to meet some sort of criteria for admittance. Even if one of the new…