Rhonda Parrish

My short story, Cuppa?, is in the most recent issue of Blood Moon Rising. You can check it out by clicking here. If you do read it, don’t mind the last four lines…they belong to a different story. I’ve sent a note to the editors to let them know and hopefully it will be changed sooner rather than later

I hope you enjoy the story, I had fun writing it. When I first wrote it it was in 2nd person. I revised it to 3rd because I think it worked better for the story, but I really enjoyed writing from the second person point of view and will likely try it again sometime

My flash piece, Ironic Angst, is now online at Every Day Fiction. Obviously, I like my story, but I also really enjoy the way Every Day Fiction works. If you like flash you ought to check it out. They put up a new story every day and you can rate and comment on them. If you stop by make sure you check out my story, then keep poking around — you’re sure to find something you like.

Athabasca Falls. You need to experience it to understand it. You need to feel the spray on your face, hear the thunder of the water and see the insane rapids.  I’ve had more than a view nightmares about it ever since I first visited it, most of them involving my daughter. That was the dread that eventually evolved into my flash fiction piece, Athabasca Falls, which is now online at Apollo’s Lyre.

I got my first cover today “Sister Margaret” was published in the December 2007 issue of Pantechnicon and as if that weren’t wonderful enough, it was chosen as the cover story. I am over the moon with happiness! See that? I’m so happy I don’t even mind that I’m using cliches

If you click on the image above it will take you to a larger version of itself. Yay! I’m so happy. Best of all, Pantechnicon is free so if you’d like to check out my story, or any of the other awesome works of fiction in it, you can do it easily by clicking any of the links to it. Like this one –> Pantechnicon!

One of my favorite short stories, that I’ve written anyway, has been accepted at Pantechnicon for their December issue. I’ll be sure and post a link when it goes live. I’m incredibly flattered to have my story reprinted at Pantechnicon as there is no disputing the quality of the fiction they publish.

Yay!

Also yay is that so far I have continued to resist the urge to revise Blood and Stone. So far. That’s related because Sister Margaret is one of the short stories I’m considering including.

The Doll, is now live at Burst. I’m very happy with this story, when you start reading it, it may sound somewhat familiar, a bit like “A Merry Christmas” or “This Year’s Toy” but keep reading — you’ll be surprised, pleasantly I hope LOL

In other news, I’m still working hard on my NaNoWriMo novel. So far I’m at 30,000 words, putting me at about double the word count I would need to be on track to finish in a month — yay! Best of all, I’ve read back over some of what I’ve written and it’s no worse than any other first draft, so hopefully getting it all edited and ready to shop around won’t be too painful an expirience. I’m very excited about it, in case it doesn’t show. This year for NaNo I bent a couple rules and decided to a) work on a novel-in-stories and b) work on a piece I’d already started (though I’m only counting words I’ve written since November 1st).  The end result is that I’m nearly done my Haven novel-in-stories which I’ve tentatively titled “Blood and Stone”.

My NaNoWriMo profile, including a short excerpt from “Blood and Stone” can be found here –> Midnyte.  Please take a look and send me a NaNoMail to tell me what you think. I wish I could leave this post open to comments so you could tell me here but alas, the spammers  make that impossible.

Barfing Frog Press — how could I not submit something to an ezine called ‘Barfing Frog Press’?  I sent them a piece I wrote three years ago, before we bought our house.  Unfortunately, it’s based on a true story — sorta ;)  You’ll have to read it in order to see what I’m talking about.

Case Closed @ Barfing Frog Press

This week is starting off with a bang — I’ve got reams of good news. First of all, my poem, Cock-a-roach has been accepted and in fact, published at Poets Against War. That’s hardly a ream all by itself though is it? Nope

My drabble, “Sex on the Beach” has been accepted at SHINE! and should be published in October -and- my short story, “This Year’s Toy” has been accepted for the next issue of DiddleDog (and is online now).

Lastly, my short story, “Absinthe Eyes” has been accepted for publication at UR-Paranormal in the very near future.

That, surely, counts as reams of good news, don’t you think?

Big Bear is now live and ready for your reading pleasure at T-Zero.  It’s a funny short story that is actually based on a true story from my days tending bar in Milo, Alberta.

Read, enjoy — it’s good, I promise

My short story, “There’s Always a Catch” has been accepted at Mount Zion Speculative Fiction — yay!  I’m very excited not only because it’s another awesome publication credit in a great magazine but because part of my payment is a contributor’s copy, and I wanted to read the magazine anyway

Yes, I really am that easy to please.

I’m not sure when it’s due to be published, but to say that I’m happy would be a serious understatement.