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The unicorn pulls…

8 January 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

Trapeze has accepted two of my microfiction pieces for reprint, which originally appeared in Tweet the Meat and PicFic (that second one is also in

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Fiction Yeah

v. [with obj.] set (something) on fire

26 December 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Alan’s father got a Kindle for his mother, and Alan handed it to me when she was done playing with it. We were at her

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Even a wedding, seven blessings and the glass stamped underfoot like a reminder of every broken thing, would have suited him more than the subway crush of a hot summer’s night, coming home from the fireworks: announcements too garbled to make out in the rattle and rush of darkness past the windows and Clare jammed up against an ESL advertisement and a black woman with the face of an aging Persian cat, sure she had lost her mind. But if she had, then so had every second person she had met since the Fourth of July; so had the universe, to let him slip through.

20 December 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

Read “The Dybbuk in Love” by Sonya Taaffe.

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Fuck yeah oatmeal.

8 December 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

My Facebook status update last night was, “For the fifth night in a row, I am getting too little sleep. SUCK IT NEUROGENESIS.” and that

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Fiction Poetry

stealing lighters from the Shell

27 November 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

I’ve been busy today sending out submissions and lining up Seven by Twenty‘s tweets for December, and laughing at Allie Brosh‘s blog, which I have

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Fiction

Hint hint

16 November 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

Mike Allen reminded that the nomination period for the 2010 Nebula Award is open. My short story “Sundowning” is eligible.

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Fiction

speculative fiction online

7 November 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

Escape Pod has posted an October Fiction Roundup.

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Fiction Writing

I got out of bed. I’d taken to sleeping naked. He took a good look at me before reacting.

15 October 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

Per Contra has just published my literary short “Toy Boy.”

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Fiction

American Lit List

10 October 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

I’ve really gotten away from reading from my American Lit List in the past year. I embarked on this ambitious reading project in December 2007,

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Fiction

Infant mortality was at a historic low. People were calling it the best TV season since 1981. Psychiatrists were switching to internal medicine. The Buffalo Bills won the Super Bowl. Glaciers were returning to western Greenland.

16 September 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

Read “Iteration” by John Kessel.

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