What I’ve written
Sunday: Tech Tools Help with Health
People with chronic illnesses need all the help we can get, to manage our health.
Monday: Atlantean
A girl who has been left out and bullied for her whole life discovers where she belongs.
Tuesday: Mundane Evil
Dr Querulous is addressing his first year demonic students on the nature of mundane evil.
Wednesday: Journey
Life's a journey, so I've heard, but no-one said which way to turn, So many choices, so much stress! I didn't get my map or GPS!
Thursday: Bloodhurst
A teenager claims to have seen a vampire. His friends go the cemetery with him to prove him wrong.
Friday: Jerk
Normally, Mr Bumpy loves doing things that get him called “jerk”, but he’s recently learned a new meaning for the word, that he really doesn’t like.
Saturday: Bunker
Chapter 9 of my work in progress reveals a potentially useful resource.
What I’ve read
Umbra Daemonium and Other Short Stories by Laura M. Austin (@kyhorrorstory on Twitter) In these stories you’ll find a possessed house, helpful wolves, someone with a touch of necrophilia, a cheesed-off unicorn, a jealous boyfriend of a super-human, a supernatural hunter of predators (the human kind), and a little boy who explores further than he should. They’re all well-told stories, with some interesting twists along the way. This book is well-worth reading. I bought it on Apple Books, but it’s available in multiple places.
Jax short story by Dawn Renee Miller (Dawn Renee Writes) A little bit cute and a little bit creepy. A very nicely written short story.
Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell. I picked this novel up second-hand. It’s amazing what treasures you can find at your local op shop. In this book Gwendoline Chawcer fantasises about the doctor she had a crush on many years ago. Her tenant Mix Cellini fantasises about the model he is stalking. The model, Nerissa Nash, fantasises about the boy next door. Because it’s by Ruth Rendell, you know none of these are going to turn out the way the characters dream they will. Rendell puts the reader into the mind of each of these three characters, and a couple of more minor characters: a killer, and the people around the killer. We see how the killer justifies their actions, and how the people around them pick up bits of the puzzle to give to the police.
A look at a book
Let’s look at a children’s book this week.
This is one of the stories I made up for my own (now adult) kids when they were little.
Fred Flamingo Wants to Dance
Fred Flamingo has left his friends and his lake, and has gone to look for someone who can teach him how to dance. Will he find what he’s looking for?
Iris Carden, Author 