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I have a poem up at Fantasy Magazine today!

It's called Like a Box of Chocolates, it's my first work to be published by Fantasy, and my first poem to be professionally published ever!

Though I feel like I cheated there, somehow. Like I went "this flash fic doesn't actually have a plot, maybe if I submit it as poetry instead no one will notice" AND THEN NO ONE DID????

... You already printed it, Fantasy magazine editing team! No takebacksies!

In all seriousness, I am very proud of this poem and very pleased to have it in Fantasy. I hope people like it.

Current Mood: accomplished

Between the pandemic and the winter, there have been far too many good reasons to not leave the house, and I realized that I probably hadn't been outside for weeks.

I've also been having trouble focusing on reading, and was struggling with starting any new books.

So I grumpily decided to make myself go outside and stay there for a minimum of five minutes. I didn't have to do anything out there, but by god if I was going to do nothing I would insist that I did nothing outdoors.

And I had started reading a book of poetry, because I reasoned that if I was struggling with attention span, something made up of small discrete chunks might be easier for my brain to digest.

Which is how I ended up in the yard by the bird feeder reading Maya Angelou out loud to a bunch of confused and suspicious chickadees.