Hi, y’all, and Happy New Year!

“Your Personalized Guide to the Museum of the Lost and Found” is out today in Uncanny!  It’s a flash piece (perhaps my first-ever actual under-1000 words flash piece?), and I’m very excited to have it out in the world.  In a way, I’m hoping it might bring with it a good start to a year that is full of uncertainty and no small amount of dread, at least for me.

I wrote this story to get over a terrible bout of writing block—most of my listicle stories start out that way (“Ten Fruits” among them)—and I didn’t quite know what I had on my hands until my beloved writing group read it.  What results is a tiny story full of descriptions of art with themes that I’m hesitant to describe even as I’m sure they’re there.  I hope you’ll like it (and tell me if you do!).

News

It’s still nomination season!  I’d be honored if you considered any of my stories from 2024, which are all handily summed up in my eligibility post here. 

Short Story Log

I only just read it, but I already know it’s going to stick with me for a while.  J.R. Dawson’s “Six People to Revise You” in Uncanny was so beautiful and so what I sometimes need to hear.  There were tears in my eyes by the end.

Not a short story, but “I Hope My Funeral's a Fucking Mess” by Kaia Ball in Electric Literature is a really excellent poem.  “I hope they forget to book a venue, a hearse / The mortician is new, anxious, and nauseous” is one of my favorite lines.  The others I’ll let you discover.

Love,

AnaMaria