Things I’ll Never Tell My Mother

Note: TW for ableism. This post can obviously apply to signs of mental illness too, but in this instance I was specifically focusing on physical disabilities. Holidays often bring back memories about growing up. As we’ve done for several years now, this week my dad handed me the newer peeler that I could use with … Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo 2017: The End/Coda

Every year when NaNoWriMo ends, I say I’m going to write a wrap-up post, and every year, I procrastinate until it gets awkward, and eventually give up. Not this time, though. This time, I am doing the damn thing. Before I go straight (hah, like that’ll ever happen) to the wrap-up, I want to give … Continue reading →

One More Light

Trigger warnings apply to this post for: discussion of suicide. The house is in the middle of nowhere. Across the road are fields and trees. A pasture and another line of trees lies between it and one neighbour, a field of soybeans and a gravel side road between it and the other. At this hour, … Continue reading →

Some Things Aren’t Meant to be Funny

[Trigger Warning: This post talks about suicidal thoughts/ideation and the act itself as well as referring to one author’s utter lack of tact with regards to same. If you’re not comfortable reading, that is completely okay and I understand—I’m only semi-comfortable writing it. If you do continue reading, for context, please read the following post by … Continue reading →

Nobody’s Content Warning

Or: A Clusterfuck in I Don’t Even Know How Many Parts Anymore (Before we get rolling, it’s occurred to me that I haven’t blogged much about bisexuality, though I’ve tweeted about it plenty. So if you weren’t aware that your friendly neighbourhood weirdo was bisexual, now you are. Just, you know, bi the way.) I’m … Continue reading →

Too Many Pies, Not Enough Fingers

I’ve spent this month’s Camp NaNoWriMo session working on PARTHENON, my NaNo novel from this past November which I talked a bit about (and shared stories from!) in these two posts. A lot of the writing has been in fits and starts, a few days of steady writing followed by a couple days of nothing, … Continue reading →

Parthenon: After (2/2)

Let’s not waste any time… for those of you just joining us, yesterday I talked a bit about PARTHENON, the novel I started writing during NaNoWriMo, and shared the first of two linked short stories about a character’s past. If you missed it, that post, and “In Between,” the story, are here. You’ll want to read … Continue reading →

Parthenon: In Between (Part 1/2)

It occurred to me recently that while I’ve tweeted several lines (search #WIPlines on Twitter if you’re interested) from PARTHENON—that’s a working title, by the way—my NaNo project from this past November, I haven’t posted much of anything about it on here. Today I rectify this. For those not familiar with it, here’s the summary: … Continue reading →

Phantom Brother

It’s my brother’s birthday today. It’s also the day he died. Or, I guess more accurately, the day he was delivered stillborn, not breathing. He was gone already and we still don’t know why. He would have been twenty-one today. I was five years old; I don’t really remember the events, and for a while … Continue reading →

Liebster Award

This is extremely late, but better late than never, right? Last month Bridgett nominated me for a Liebster Award, which is apparently an award that’s given by bloggers to other bloggers, specifically those with under 1,000 followers, as a means of drawing people to new blogs and earning more followers for those people. Kinda neat! The … Continue reading →