I’m proud to announce that my short story “Like Paralda” has been published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no. 52. I’m honored to be included among so many remarkable LCRW contributors.
Available July 7, 2026. Link in bio.
This is exactly the sort of history I love to explore in my writing. What if pulp occultism was real and ubiquitous?
So far, all the answers I’ve cobbled together point toward something as bleak and beautiful as our own world, if weirder and worse.
The distance between a reality with real gods and one in which we’ve invented them is fascinatingly small. We seem to be achieving dystopia just fine without mail-order magic.
MONSTRILIO by @samanito
A mother grows something to love from her son's lung--a monster, a person, a monster. Strange, hopeful, heartbreaking. A story of loving on purpose. Find a cozy spot to hang from your arm tail, unhinge your novel-jaw, and devour this book. #BookReview
Did I find the spirit of Christmas already?
It's an unopened, 100% juice, apple Capri Sun left on the desk of an empty English building classroom during finals week, so I'm not totally sure.
I'll keep searching.
This is the year I discover the spirit of Christmas.
After that, I'm not sure. I guess, learn and incorporate its true name into a pentacle written on virgin parchment, summon it, bind it within a magic circle of salt, then bend it to my mortal will? We'll see if there's time.
Her mother would look at her with tender love, and say: "My girl always wakes up with a smile! and Margaret would smile the best way she could, to fulfill her mother's prophecy.
#amreading POOR DEER by Claire Oshetsky
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The girl woke up feeling entirely at ease. She knew from habit that her mother would soon come into her room to open the curtains and let the morning in.
I call it "relief", though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation.
#amreading THE TURN OF THE SCREW, by Henry James
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