My debut fiction collection, How to Make Your Mother Cry, will be out on May 1st (earlier if you pre-order). Writing blurbs takes so much time and I'm grateful to the amazing writers who wrote for me. Here's a blurb from Deesha Philyaw #howtomakeyourmothercry WVU Press

Dear April, backyard is an ecosystem of small snakes, scorpions, hummingbirds, squirrels cutting through the prayer flags. Inside, spiders with dead insects. My nook where I have breakfast talking to Ma. My books laptops. Tiny worlds everywhere.
In the end, just light and dust.

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At first, it was just second person POV, then some frowned upon the first person POV, and now it's third person present tense.
I believe every story I'll write will have a content warning. Sigh.

“I imagine him swept away by the current, the gray-green water, arms flailing, the stones he collected weighing him down, and hypothermia in ten minutes.” New story in Third Street Review
third-street-review.org/fiction/

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I’m watching Ripley on Netflix and I’m in love with the locations, the sepia vibes, the beautiful camera work. 🖤

Dear April, we have been switching between AC and heater. I woke up last night in sweat, & then cold, thunderstorms breaking through the area, confused like me. This morning the wind whips like it's about to die, but all we do is shrug & let this go on until we no longer can.

I always think about this..

⁦Gooseberry Pie Literary Magazine⁩ submissions due by 4/10/24

Posting this photo because all that is beautiful doesn’t have to be perfect, the trash bins add that touch here or vice versa-beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Hi all, I have a #flashfiction at the wonderful The Disappointed Housewife-SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN.
Many thanks to Kevin Brennan ~ "Fiasco Salad" for giving this a beautiful home.

thedisappointedhousewife.com/2024/04/09/che…

Hi all, I have a #flashfiction at the wonderful The Disappointed Housewife-SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN.
Many thanks to Kevin Brennan ~ "Fiasco Salad" for giving this a beautiful home.

thedisappointedhousewife.com/2024/04/09/che…

I have written quite a bit of #flashfiction in past month a half that now I am worried if I'd be able to write a #shortstory .
Sigh.

Not a great pic but there it is, and how the yard darkened and lights came on and the birds went silent
#Eclipse2024

Amazing experience of watching the total eclipse right from our backyard!

🌸 🌺 in the backyard
Our art should be like these: blooming in their colors, swaying in wind with an unparalleled beauty and simplicity ❤️

Dear April, I want to smell mangoes and run to my childhood, my home with jackfruit trees, my father changing the cover on his precious books, smiling, Oh you are here, and I hug him with all my love, my grief, saying I miss you without a single word.

I should count how many places I have published my work.
#fiction #poetry #publishing

Dear April, today, I touched my mother's face on a picture where she's holding me as a baby. I don't remember but I was there with her. Memory is a building with a foundation of something unknown to you.
Today, I sat with this poem for long.