Artists should get paid. Woops, I probably just lost a bunch of people there, but bear with me. A lot of the short stories I list in this series are "free," but I encourage you to find a way to support the publications you love.

Well, busy, but I bet you guessed that. And thirty stories with a total of over 118,000 words is a lot to wrangle. But more than that, I had some good news to share (which I still can't share) and that led to so much procrastination. I didn't want to come talk about these stories...

Maybe you can tell from the above image, I'm very excited about the release of Seeing Forever. Today is launch day, where this baby goes out into the world for you all to read. If I could put on a firework display to celebrate, I would.

Short stories are important. For readers and writers. The “short” part allows for risk taking and experimentation. It allows both the writer and the reader to try something new with a much smaller investment in time. On the writer's end, it has the additional benefit of being a g...