At every day poets & every day fiction

Another of my poems, The Alchemist’s Chant, is scheduled to appear January 17 in Every Day Poets. It’s written with tongue firmly in cheek, of course, but there is method to my madness. Keep your old high school chemistry text at hand when you read it.

And at Every Day Fiction, Upon the Doorsteps will be the featured story on January 22; my birthday. This one is anything but humorous and it just might be a ghost story.

A lot of my favorite authors are in the January TOC at both sites, too. Check it out at Every Day Poets and Every Day Fiction.

With three you get fortune cookies

My friend, Erin Kinch has a perfect little tale as the featured story at Every Day Fiction today. It’s title is Fortune Cookies. Check it out; it will make you smile. BTW, Erin blogs at Living the Fictional Dream.

At moon drenched fables

Sarah Ashwood, flash fiction and poetry editor for Moon Drenched Fables, has accepted my flash fiction, Pisces Ascendant, for publication in the e-zine’s March 2009 issue. Thank you, Sarah!

Moon Drenched Fables. Don’t you just love the sound of that? I would want to have my work published there just on the name alone, but co-editors Sarah and Carol have a lot more than that going for them.

It’s a classy looking site and it presents orignal essays, flash fiction, short stories and poetry, all with a fantasy thread. The fiction in the current issue is singular and there are a couple of names in the table of contents that are familiar to me.

Megan Arkenberg and D.J. Barber are regulars at Every Day Fiction and their work has been popping up with some frequency in other electronic and print publications. Megan is also editor of Mirror Dance. D.J. blogs at Canyons of Gray.

Megan’s flash, The Mermaid’s Gift, is a haunting love story, and D.J.’s short fiction, Koby the Toad, had me laughing all the way to the Piney Woods by a blackwater stream just north of Great Bay, where Koby lives in a mostly rotted-out stump. Both stories are great reads.

So check out Moon Drenched Fables when you have a chance. If you like top-notch fantasy, you’ll bookmark the site and stop back again..

At residential aliens

My micro-flash, Anastasia, went on-line today at Lyn Perry’s Residential Aliens. It’s only two hundred words, so anything I might say about it could be longer than the story, so I’ll just mention that I’m pleased with it and happy Lyn liked it, too. Thanks bunches, Lyn!

Moving in is always a chore

Welcome to my new place.

Just ignore the boxes and crates; I’m still moving in. I do that a lot, but if you’ve read my other blog, Now Playing in Seattle, you already know that.

I’ve been living in Seattle for a year now; it may be my last move. I’m getting a little too old to keep picking up and dragging my stuff around. Thank God I like it here. We have a place a stone’s throw from Puget Sound, we can see the Olympic Mountains from the bedroom window and there is a sense of comfort listening to the whistles of the ferries that come and go from the Fauntleroy Landing.

I’ve been writing full-time since January. My goal for the year was to have ten stories accepted for publication. My first published story was The Mixture at Every Day Fiction in July; if you would like to read it, there is a link in My Fiction at the top of the page.

Since The Mixture, fourteen of my other stories have been accepted by five on-line publications and three print magazines. My goal for 2009 is twenty published stories, at least two of which to be at the professional level.

As I said in my first post here, the purpose of A Moving Line is to share the ups and downs of my writing career and to talk about the craft of writing. I am not shy about sharing my thoughts and opinions, and I’ll be adding to the collection from time to time, so drop by, whenever you like; see what it is I’m ranting about at the moment.

Leave your comments, too. Dialogues are so much more fun than monologues.