My flash fiction piece “Easy Bake” is now available at Baltimore Review!
Author: joannemerriam

A running tally of interesting, useful, hilarious, or explanatory posts elsewhere on the internet.

A variation on the oatmeal orange cranberry muffins (which is based on this recipe). I took out some of the sugar and switched to whole

1. Roy & Lesley Adkins, Jane Austen’s England
2. Naomi Alderman, The Future

We had some cranberries in the freezer to use up and I wanted to make muffins, so I made this recipe, except with unsweetened coconut

Dave and I spent a few hours yesterday hiking the McDonald Sportsplex Park trails near Lake Thomas, while it was snowing. It’s a loop trail,

I received this email today: A few ways to know this is a scam:

Scifaikuest has just informed me that I will be the featured poet for their August 2025 print edition. They’ve accepted “Interplanetary War” (a cinquain), “Junkyard”