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Teaser from the Glitter and Mayhem story

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Cat

I’m finishing up a story for the Glitter and Mayhem anthology, involving the Midwestern town I grew up in and lesbian were-seals. Here’s what may be the opener. Here’s Anna and I all through high school: a geeky Hispanic theater … Continue reading →

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Teaser: The Threadbare Magician

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Cat

Still revamping this, since it insists on struggling from novelette length towards novella. Here you go. Friendly Village loops and winds, tiny roads scattered among the trailers. Every patch of landscaping is different – cacti surrounded one mobile home, followed … Continue reading →

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Teaser from The Threadbare Magician (WIP, short story)

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Cat

Feeling good and energized after WorldCon, ready to finish up a piece that’s been floating around in my head for a while. Story elements include Hawaiian shirts, a retirement community called Friendly Village, an old love affair, a smart-alecky fortune teller, rabbits, and centaurs. Here’s the current beginning.
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The Easter Bunny Must Die, Part 6

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Cat

(Chapter One can be found here, here, and here. Chapter Two is contained here and here.) “You can stay with me tonight,” Harriet said at the end. “There’s a box of stuff for Goodwill in the spare room, so you … Continue reading →

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The Easter Bunny Must Die! (snippet from a work in progress)

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Cat

I just started an urban fantasy novel, tentatively titled THE EASTER BUNNY MUST DIE!, which I’m in the very early stages of and am thinking would be part of a series called The Holiday Consortium. What do you think, would you keep reading? (Bear in mind, it’s still first draft rough!) Continue reading →

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Clarion West Write-a-thon Progress: How Deep Is Red

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Cat

So here’s a chunk from this morning’s writing so far. The story will be the sequel to “Sugar”, which is available in Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight. If you’re interested in getting to see the whole story, then I invite you to support me in the Write-a-thon! I’ll be sending a weekly e-mail that will include the stories that I write for the Write-a-thon over its six-week course, so for a small donation, you’ll be getting what I’d like to think of as high quality fiction. :) Continue reading →

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WIP Snippet: Five Ways To Fall In Love on Planet Porcelain

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Cat

Over the years, Tikka’s job as a Minor Propagandist for the planet Porcelain’s Bureau of Tourism had come to shape her way of thinking. She dealt primarily in quintets of attractions, lists of five which were distributed through the Bureau’s publications and information dollops: Five Major China Factories Where the Population of Porcelain Can Be Seen Being Created; Five Views of Porcelain’s Clay Fields; Five Restaurants Serving Native Cuisine at Its Most Natural. Continue reading →

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Snippet from the Current WIP

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Cat

It was Fish Day at Archie McPhee’s. In another kind of store, Fish Day might have signaled a sale on salmon or fresh herring. Here in the novelty store, against a backdrop of bins filled with rubber eyeballs and plastic beetles, it meant the appearance of the enormous Wheel of Fish. Continue reading →

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Snippet: Villa Encantada

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Cat

Excerpt from Villa Encantada (working title), an urban fantasy short story set in Villa Encantada, a condo complex on Lake Sammamish. For those familiar with “Eagle-haunted Lake Sammamish” or “Legends of the Gone,” it’s the same complex. Continue reading →

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99 Statues, Part Two

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Cat

He could hear Feniker’s soft breathing, a burry almost snore, a sound so uniquely Fen that it tugged a smile onto Nicholas’s lips, knowing what his lover’s face looked like when sleep-slackened, how it must look right now. He had drawn the drapes across the windows; the hotel’s front looked out onto the plaza, but Nicholas had opted for one of the less ostentatious back chambers which he secretly thought more pleasant, overlooking the back gardens, which were the more handsome vista, even when leaf-deprived and blackened by the cold, due to the green cedars that ringed it round. Continue reading →

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