There's a duck chillin' on my front lawn.

Gave my dog a bit of my toast this morning, and she zoomed around the room. Now, I wish I could get as excited over something as simple.

I’m going to also be using Instagram Live tonight for my release party, so if you want to watch from home, follow me over there @Farrenkopf451 around 6 pm!!!

Thank you Richie Hofmann for the prompt and notes on my little poem about my father's cigarettes. Your class was invaluable. The kindest guide. 🖤 Carla Sarett, thank you to you too, a dear classmate and friend. 🖤
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'The mammoth crouches behind her desk, which is not as neat as she’d like it to be, and shuffles through papers until she finds a brochure.'
My megafauna story is finally here!!
This flash is from my latest novel (so editors, please hit up my agent if you'd like to read it!)

I love this Amy Hempel story.

I know I'm in the zone when my writing session includes me lying on the floor and questioning every decision I've ever made.

My (contest finalist) story Backyard Sea Flash Frog is up.
Much gratitude to Eric Scot Tryon for giving this piece a beautiful home.
It's accompanied by wonderful art from OCH GONZALEZ.
I started it in a magical realism class more than a year ago.
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Is it CNF? Is it Humour? A bit of both? Only my Nani knows. Enjoy this piece birth from a Twistinthetale Side Quest prompt. Thank you, The Hooghly Review (Issue 3 coming soon), for accepting this as a weekly feature comedy!

Many thanks to The Yale Review for publishing this essay of mine. I hope you all will read it. ❤️

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“Many years later, I realized no one avoids Armageddon, that Armageddon starts when we’re born, that we’re all being stalked by a cat hidden in the bushes of our peripheral vision” LOVE!! Will Musgrove — sooo good!

Since I didn’t have anyone to kiss, I volunteered for Jimmy duty, which normally meant listening to his conspiracy theories about little green aliens and secret societies. Not that night.

Read Will Musgrove in Superstition Review!

I'll be in the National Flash Fiction Day again this year with another weird story. ✨️💧

Feels like a J. D. Daniels day.

The Treat Mafia has come to collect. 🐕 🐕

I didn't get much writing done today, but I did beat Metal Gear Solid 4 on my quest to beat every Metal Gear game ever made.

ICYMI: 🥳 Three, two, one, Happy New Year. I wrote another thing. 🥳

Big, big thanks to Lee Potts 📖 for publishing my poem on the wonderful Stone Circle Review today!

“With each following day, each new experience, I became less and less—the duality of each decision collapsing into a single thread, one possibility, one life.” - Will Musgrove in Superstition Review 🥂✨

Bittersweet as champagne, this one.