A Broken Laptop

Actually, I do.  I love flash fiction.  Micro fiction.  Tiny little pieces of perfect fiction. My goal for the year is to become more comfortable writing in the 5,000 word area.  I can do flash.  I can do novels.  The in-between?  It’s a little bit harder. Anyway, Tuesday Shorts just accepted a flash piece of mine for a future issue.  … Read More

I sold a fun story!  “Lady Luck” will come out in the July issue of Bards and Sages.  They are always quick to respond, but the editor got back to me in record time after we determined the kobolds swiped my earlier submission.  That said, today has been a day of good news.  One friend scored an agent (hooray!) and … Read More

Tonight I have set an hour aside to stalk all of the magazines that accepted my work and then mysteriously disappeared into the black hole of cyberland.  Did they fold?  Are they alive and well? I shall lurk in the shadows and find out.

My story “Flowers” came out today.  This is truly a lovely magazine, and I quite enjoy it. http://www.blueprintreview.de/ I hit a new critique group the other night, and they were amazing!  What a quirky, quietly intelligent group of people.  It was a pleasure to be there.  Anyway, they helped me on a story that I am quite partial to, (my … Read More

On Saturday, 8:00 Board time, a bunch of us are doing a writing contest together.  I’m giving the prompt this go round.  Come join us!  Check out the board and get familiar with it ahead of time, because it’s kind of tricky. http://www.writersbbs.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?action=read&forum=flash_fiction_ch&message=6538-1

This is me, this is me!  It’s probably my favorite story.  “The Boy Who Hangs the Stars”.  🙂 http://www.susurruspress.com/NLnOW.html

I’m excited to be the first story in what just looks like a fun concept: a flash horror every week of the year. And yay, the comments are already garnering free porno spam!  Wait… http://52stitches.blogspot.com/ Also, Fear and Trembling accepted my poem “the stranger with blue eyes” for a future issue.  I took a line from that poem and it became … Read More

On the days where I have a chance to write, this is my typical day.   A Broken Laptop by Mercedes M. Yardley   Her son pulls eight keys from the keyboard.  Her daughter finishes it off, making it a nice and even twenty.  This slows the writer down some. The telephone rings.  It is her best friend.  “What are … Read More

  See my new laptop with keys but an incompatible writing program, so I can’t get my old stuff onto the new computer?   Carry on.

I went home for the holidays, and saw old friends.  Old friends seem to be a theme right now, because they’re popping up everywhere that I go. “Oh, hello, I knew you…once.  How wonderful to see you again!” It is a pleasure, truly.  I realize that my children will not have the same opportunities for Old Friends that I had.  … Read More