The Sparrow's Nest

Saturday. I had finished my 12th draft of my second book. I wanted to celebrate, but I was broke. So what should I do? Bake something I've never done before with what little resources I had! Very smart. I looked online for recipes that had the ingredients laying around in dusty heaps in my cupboard. Donuts. Yummy, fat, little donuts made with cinnamon and nutmeg. It was beautiful. I didn't need a deep fryer or any kind of yeast. It even had a recipe to make a substitute for buttermilk. Ah, lovely little donuts come to me! I dragged out all my cookware and bam, can you hear the music? I passed them around to my family and only my sisters said they were perfect. Wouldn't you know it, they were the only ones who didn't get donuts full of mysterious cream. Now what? Since everything cooks the rest of the way in the microwave whenever I screw up, I took the donuts and stuffed them in there for three minutes. And then... And here you see is rubber ceme

I hate teenage characters. They're so annoying. They whine, they have issues that make no sense, they never speak up, and they consider all adults as their enemy. Why don't they just die? They can ruin movies and books with their very presence! Are these insufferable creatures from real life? I couldn't stand them when I was a teenager! I was insulted that people thought I was that way. I looked around at my friends and none of them were that way either. What idiot made up those buttheads? Before you start ruining your story with some melodramatic punk that can't do anything but have sex and get high, take some time out of your day to hang out with a real teenager. You'll find them rather funny. Of course they have hormones going on, but don't we all? Find their good points. Teenagers love to play, they love playing pranks, joking around, laughing, saying the most hilarious things, and doing the craziest things because lots of them don't think

I went into the blog and found that some of the links for the online stories went nowhere. I found out that those stories had gone into the archives of the magazine that they were published in. And so, I have updated the links, and you can reach them again. If in the future, you wish to read them, and the links are gone, it's because the stories have been moved further back into the archives, but they're still there. I will update them as soon as I can, whenever they change. The stories for The Horror Zine will get deleted one year after they come out, because the Horror Zine does a cleanse of old stories. So Robert will only be available to read in The Horror Zine until April, and Headlights until June or July. I hope to get those reprinted as soon as possible. "Pariahs" is doing pretty well for a girl who doesn't know what she's doing. If you haven't bought a copy yet, click  here  and pick one up. And please leave me a review for it on Goodr