NYC Midnight results are out for the first round of the Short Story challenge. I've been stressing all day, and then this happened.

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. Lisa is an amazing writer (and wonderful person) so… what are you waiting for?

Survived another two-contest weekend, the overlap of TLDR's 1kWordHerd and the 2nd round of NYCM's Short Story Challenge. Cookies will be accepted for the foreseeable future.

Cataract surgery in 2 hours. I’m nervous but much calmer than I was yesterday/last night. This is my second surgery in a little over a decade to remove one of my original parts. First was a gift, this one’s defective,

I survived. That is good enough for now.

Alyssa is a fantastic writer and you should read this. It’s short so you have no excuse.

1) Something (very stupid) you’re going to see over the next weeks are people arguing that screenwriters are being unreasonable. “Times have changed”. No. Times WERE changed. By SOMEBODY. By PEOPLE, making CHOICES.

This is becoming a habit. (Left eye surgery went fine!)

The murder of Jordan Neely on the subway has me shaken and re-evaluating the experience of NYC in a way that nothing has since 9/11, not even the relatively recent subway shooter, the Halloween terrorist attack, or the surge of homophobic violence in 2013.

Frankly I reject the premise that asking for food and water and being frustrated when you’re devalued/ignored is, in any way, “unhinged” behavior. And I know for a fact the folks saying so have had much more disruptive meltdowns when a cashier won’t accept their expired coupons.

It seems like (mostly White) men in this country are so profoundly unaccustomed to feeling unsafe that they can't (or rather won't) distinguish that from actually *being* unsafe. If women resorted to vigilante violence every time we simply *felt* unsafe hooo boy.

In the past month I've written 1 Microfiction, 1 Short screenplay, 3 Flashes and 2 Short stories, all for contests, many of which overlapped. I also had eye surgery twice. I'm exhausted.

I have a not-at-all-new story up today at Suddenly, and Without Warning! I originally wrote this one in 1997, which, for those of you not great at math, was a very long time ago.

There’s likely no one on my feed who actually needs to learn any of this, but this is so well-put that I’m signal-boosting it anyway.

It’s gay pride here today so I put on my least drab shirt and went outside for just a few minutes, walked around. It’s tricky to feel cute with psoriasis on my face, but I gave it my all.

I used to live in this neighborhood and it’s become an amazing place in part because of businesses like this one.

After a rough stretch of disappointing contest results, I'm so thrilled to have placed 9th in the Sixth Writer's Playground contest from Writers' Playground, LLC - alongside the incomparable MM Schreier, no less!

New story up! My ninth-place at Writer's Playground, a bit of a throwback for me, but one of my current favorites (of mine). writersplaygroundllc.com/men-and-other-…