March 5, 2025, 8:57 a.m.

When the crows cry, I feed them.

Ficx

A Newsletter from Joanne Merriam

Just a super quick note. Things are getting pretty sticky, aren’t they? Some stuff to do about all that. I’ve been reading a lot of detective stories1, because it’s reassuring to spend time with problems that are solvable, but I also just finished Chin-Sun Lee’s Upcountry, which was rather dark but very readable. Recommended. And I had the shortest of shorts published today: “Lightyears From Home” at 50-Word Stories. Hope you all enjoy it!

1Josephine Tey and Margery Allingham, though I’ll warn you that occasionally they lean pretty hard into being mid-20th Century British people with all the jingoism and racism that implies.

2Title is the first sentence of the story linked above.

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Thanks for being here with me, friend!

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