Kindred Rites Book Two of the Night Calls series by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel A Christmas Eve Visitation “Ready for a lesson?” Marta said suddenly. I blinked, surprised by the question. “Tonight?” Marta lifted her head to … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2014
(Picture from here.) It’s harvest season on our little microfarm. Nanofarm? Postage Stamp Farm? That might be a good name for the place. We have two gardens. The main one south of the house and the east garden where the … Continue reading
Worldcon is now over, and if you were stuck home like me, your internet reading every day was full of posts about panels and discussions and finally the awards, which latter sparked some discussion, including the inevitable backlash of derision … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough For those of you who have just tuned in, I went to Britain and came back. While I was there I wedged in as much theater as I possibly could. Clearly reviews must be written! We … Continue reading
Note: I’m off hiking at Point Reyes National Seashore this week, so I’ve posted one of the stories from my flash fiction collection, Flashes of Illumination. This is what I call flash memoir: a type of creative nonfiction built on … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. My reading of late has been sporadic, fitted around beta reading and proofing. • What are you currently reading? After Elizabeth, by Leanda de Lisle. Basic, eminently readable history about James I of … Continue reading
Like all writers, I have a special relationship with words. In my case, I love them. I am fascinated by the way they work (or fail to work), the myriad ways in which they can be misunderstood, misused, even abused … Continue reading
Brenda Clough has been taking us along with her on her post-Worldcon journeys. Me, I front-loaded my trip to Europe, going to a friend’s 60th birthday party in Normandy. It was a loose sort of gathering–people hung around, or walked, or … Continue reading
Nine White Horses by Judith Tarr Nine stories of horses and their people. Nine tales of magic and enchantment. Horses of the ancient world, horses of the Middle Ages and the Arabian Nights, horses of the present and the future, … Continue reading
This year, with the varmint invasion at an all time high–from rabbits to squirrels to pack rats to mice to gophers–we put into action tentative plan to acquire a barn cat–a cat of such nature so as not to be … Continue reading