: About Me

I'm a writer with one book under my belt (out for agent consideration right now). I specialize in dark contemporary fantasy, but, seeing as I always have to put my two cents in, I'll probably be popping up outside my genre on this site.

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

ouija boards, checking bank balances, and bucking the mainstream.

My parents always told me ...

to defend myself. Comes from having a law enforcement father, I guess.

My childhood ambition ...

to write.

My favorite memory ...

Too many good ones to narrow down.

Why I write ...

I think I'd stop breathing if I didn't.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading "Thud" by Terry Pratchett. Listening to Combichrist.

My first job ...

Day camp aide.

My best moment ...

Every single minute ('cause it might be my last).

My inspiration ...

My grandmother. A stronger, more generous, more curse-word-filled woman I never did meet.

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Mourning

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When the rest of the mourners had slipped away, I walked up to my grandmother's open casket, said goodbye and put a receipt in her hand. My grandmother was a compulsive shopper. When she wasn't buying something, she was returning something. Sometimes she bought something just so she could return it and buy something else. Her wallet was spring-loaded. She could compute percentages like a mathematician and calculate sales tax better than a cash register. Her addiction filled two closets, bending hefty metal rods to the breaking point. If there was an outfit, you could be certain there were ...

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