I have another announcement!* Everyone quiet down and listen!
An old friend of mine, David Schleicher (I wrote about our uber-sexy date here, see section “First Grade”), is launching a literary magazine called The Stone, and he asked me to contribute to the first edition.
I couldn’t have been more honored! And so I furiously typed out a story, something new that I had rattling about in my head. It was a story that was meant to be a “short” story but ended up at 14 pages. It seems my fingers didn’t understand the “short” party of the story, it seems they didn’t want to stop typing. I sent it off to him.
This is what I got in reply:
“I am so happy that we both grew up and became storytellers! I knew there was a reason I liked you so much when we were little.”
Aaawwww, doesn’t that just melt your heart?
You see the cute thing about all of this, is that decades ago when we were little, before the date that destroyed “us”, we would both write stories and illustrations, sometimes with eachother in starring roles (ah puppy love, ain’t it grand?).
I can assure you there wasn’t much by way of plot and even less of characterization, but damnit we were writers! We were seven years old, and we were writers!
And it appears not much has changed. As the years passed, David published his first novel, and we’re both now bloggers, so you see Words were always in our stars.
This makes me happy. A happy full circle coming back around again, stars twinkling and all that.
What also makes me happy is that I got to flex my fiction fingers a bit while writing this story for the launch of The Stone. This is something I have been furtively doing here and there, writing when I have spare moments, happily letting the stories write themselves- an interesting phenomenon when you see what the stories are capable of if simply left to their own devices.
The Stone is available on Amazon for the Kindle, but if you are Kindle-less you can also download the free Kindle app for your phone or tablet here.
And Oh Emm Gee, do you see that right there? Amazon officially lists me as an ‘author’ now! Sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. DON’T. SAY. A. WOOOOORD. If no one says otherwise then they’ll never know the difference!
That’s worth a celebration drink alone.
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*I promise that I will not only post when I have “announcements”. I hate it when bloggers do that. No, no, no, I do solemnly swear that I will continue to post that inane boring stream-of-conscious blogarrhea that you all love so much just to fill the bloggy silences…
Amanda – you just saved me years’ worth of therapy! NOW I KNOW WHY I HATE DISNEY MOVIES SO MUCH!
That damned Little Mermaid destroyed “us”!
Though I’d still like to blame your brother – coercing me to throw candy and popcorn at the screen…that bastard!
I knew we should’ve seen “Tango & Cash” instead.
The Little Mermaid- I knew she was a no-good homewrecking floozy!!!
I am so excited for you!! I’m downloading the app and purchasing the book today! Congrats!
Aw thanks Andrea!