Interlude: Happy New Year!
Hello all the way from the last hours of 2024. I keep needing to remind myself that despite not having anything published this year (alas!) that I...
End of the Year Blues
In the last few years, I tended to get a bit somber as the year winds down. Looking back at what I’d gotten published that year, and worry about awards...
The Road Goes Ever On
I’ve spent all day quiet, subdued. I don’t have much to say about it all. I don’t have many answers except that we should look out for and take care of each...
Capclave 2024
Capclave is a small regional convention held in Rockville, Maryland that I’ve attended every year since 2015. Its ostensible focus is short fiction (it’s...
Lines in the Dirt
Jeanine Cummins, author of American Dirt has another book coming out. This one is about how a hurricane affects a Puerto Rican family. While I had a grim...
Changing Goals Is Okay
I had this whole thing written out about how often we are convinced we should pursue something because it’s someone else’s goal. How the horror of - as it’s...
Where the Fiction Happens
When I was still living in Puerto Rico, I worked at a call center for GE Money (before the financial crisis almost nuked it from orbit). There was an...
Crossing Out the Old, Scribbling in the New
Welcome to Crosshatches! Social media is rotting out from under us - and just as my writing was beginning to find audiences, too! Creators of all stripes...