Zen Benefiel Chat Snippet #4 – Make Oceans

Many thanks to Zen Benefiel for having me take part in his One World in a New World series.

I’m sharing some snippets from the full conversation (you can find it on Youtube) every few days. Previous snippets are:

In the meantime, please enjoy Make Oceans.

 
AND!!!
I’ll give an autographed copy of The Augmented Man to the first five people who comment on the chat (with extra points if you can find my flubs).

Christina Hoag’s “Eye Witness” now in Rabbit Hole V anthology

I’m lucky enough to have my work included in The Rabbit Hole Volume 5: Just…Plain…Weird anthology along with quite a group of talented authors. I especially love the teaser

Welcome to the Rabbit Hole. On our fifth excursion into the warren of the odd, 37 authors lead us down their own little burrows of strangeness : an army of penguins, music that cures, aliens that communicate through old cartoons, images of the future that save, unwanted visions of the now, and, oh yes, it is raining lawyers. All have one thing in common, they are just…plain…weird.
Weird can be funny, weird can be sad, weird can be thoughtful, weird can be mad, but the one thing in common is that weird shares experiences you have, thankfully, never had.
Just be careful, all little bunnies are not nice, but they are memorable.

 
About the Author
Christina Hoag is the author of novels Law of the Jungle, The Blood Room, Girl on the Brink and Skin of Tattoos, and co-authored Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence. A former journalist for the Miami Herald and Associated Press, she reported from Latin America for nearly a decade for major media including Time, Business Week, New York Times, Financial Times, and Houston Chronicle among other media. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous literary reviews, including Toasted Cheese, Lunch Ticket and Shooter, and have won several awards. For more information visit https://christinahoag.com.

 
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Anna Ross’ “Post Administration” now in Rabbit Hole V anthology

I’m lucky enough to have my work included in The Rabbit Hole Volume 5: Just…Plain…Weird anthology along with quite a group of talented authors. I especially love the teaser

Welcome to the Rabbit Hole. On our fifth excursion into the warren of the odd, 37 authors lead us down their own little burrows of strangeness : an army of penguins, music that cures, aliens that communicate through old cartoons, images of the future that save, unwanted visions of the now, and, oh yes, it is raining lawyers. All have one thing in common, they are just…plain…weird.
Weird can be funny, weird can be sad, weird can be thoughtful, weird can be mad, but the one thing in common is that weird shares experiences you have, thankfully, never had.
Just be careful, all little bunnies are not nice, but they are memorable.

 
About the Author
Anna Ross lives in North Yorkshire and works as a university administrator. Her passion is writing fiction of all genres and her short stories and poems have been published in over 10 anthologies and journals.
She is noted amongst her peers for writing literature with dark underlying themes and messages; however, she is actually a very friendly person in the real world.

 
How the stories came about? Continue reading “Anna Ross’ “Post Administration” now in Rabbit Hole V anthology”

Zen Benefiel Chat Snippet #3 – Good, Bad, and Better Days

Many thanks to Zen Benefiel for having me take part in his One World in a New World series.

I’m sharing some snippets from the full conversation (you can find it on Youtube) every few days. Previous snippets are:

In the meantime, please enjoy Good, Bad, and Better Days.

 
AND!!!
I’ll give an autographed copy of The Augmented Man to the first five people who comment on the chat (with extra points if you can find my flubs).

Turkey Prejudices

Following up on last week’s Turkeys and a Cautious Squirrel, we note a concern with our WildLife‘s social skills.

Specifically with some Turkeys.

We learn some Turkeys do not like Squirrels.

Regular readers may remember Agnes’s Chippie War Dance when an aberrant chipmunk thought to oust her from her pile of seeds.

That was a different issue, however.

Property rights (we suspect Agnes learned property rights from some of our neighbors).

Oh, if I’m to be accurate (why start now?) it’s more like resource issues and such is more in the mindsets of The Wild.

And being completely honest, would you want squirrels around if you were a Turkey?

Nasty little things, you know…the way they watch you…just waiting for you to drop a peanut or a seed or –God Forbid! – a cookie!

Okay, okay, okay. We put out food for our Squirrels, too.