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Newly published:”The Storyvore”

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Tell me a story...

Have you ever described yourself as the sort of person who devours books? I have. I’ve also called myself a ‘cultural omnivore,’ since there are very few things in this world that I don’t find at least a little (or a lot) interesting.

But what if stories were someone’s actual sustenance? And what happens to the person who tells them?

I wondered, and then I wrote. And now you can read the resulting short fiction (for free!) over at the literary journal, Zetetic!

Read “The Storyvore” on Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry

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Brushing up for Boskone

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A shimmering visit from Jack Frost on the back porch last week. Photo by Meg Winikates.
A shimmering visit from Jack Frost on the back porch last week. Photo by Meg Winikates.

February is here, and with it comes not only a shocking pile of snow, but also one of my favorite parts of the geeky side of the calendar: Boskone.  Last year I got to have tea and coffee with Jane Yolen (wow!) and Bruce Coville (also wow!).

This year, if you have the time available, there’s a bunch of free programming on Friday afternoon (2/13), which looks like a really cool selection of stuff.   I’m starting a new job so I won’t be able to make it before Friday evening at the earliest, but there’s no shortage of neat stuff to see the rest of the weekend. (Link above also goes to the rest of the weekend’s program.)

If you should happen to be at the convention on Sunday morning, don’t miss the Flashfic read-aloud competition at 9:30!  11 writers get 3 minutes each to read a story, get critiqued, and compete for the top spot, yours truly included.   Last year’s stories were all fun and incredibly varied, and I’m looking forward to being part of the action this year.  Hope to see you there!

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Wi-Fi Forest Flash Fiction

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Deeper Than You Imagined, by Sachiko Akiyama (featured artist in Branching Out), click for source.
Deeper Than You Imagined, by Sachiko Akiyama (featured artist in Branching Out), click for source.

If any of you follow my museum education blog, Brain Popcorn, you’ll know I’ve been working on a show that opened just a few weeks ago called Branching Out: Trees as Art.  In the course of researching for that show, I was introduced to the work of Suzanne Simard, a forester who works with tree root/fungal networks, which form an underground communication chain between trees of all ages and species in a forest.  Her research inspired me to write a speculative flash fiction story which has now been published on PEM’s blog, Connected.

Read “Biofeedback” here.

biofeedback cover(Which, when I was writing it, I really wanted to call “Return of the Entwives.”  You’ll see why.)