Category: Short Stories
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A Difficult Week
I’m a little late with this week’s post–at least, later than I generally prefer. And that’s because the last week has been particularly difficult. So, please bare with me, but this week’s blog is going to be a bit of a short catharsis session for me. Tahlula To start, last…
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My Favorite Thing to Write: Genre Mashups with a Historical Bent
Wow. Yeah. That’s a mouthful. But as I look over the original projects I’ve got coming out over the next few months, as well as the projects I’m currently working on, this is undeniably true. I really love writing genre mashups that have a certain (if varying) historical element. Here’s…
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Goodbye ’24, Hello ’25
With the new year arriving in less than 12 hours from the time I sit here writing this, I feel it’s a nice time to take a look back at what 2024 has given me, and then look forward to what is yet to come. 2024 This past year was…
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Rejection Goal: 90/100
With two weeks left in the year, I have officially hit 90 rejections for short stories and manuscripts. Unfortunately, given recent events (especially adopting a new dog that has needed some extra care and attention to help him adapt to his new home) as well as the length of time…
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Today’s Undead Forecast
I’ve been thinking about sharing another short story lately, and I have recently been encouraged to do so by a reader of this blog and my newsletter. So, I have decided to do it this week! I’m proud of the following story despite the fact it has been rejected nine…
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General Short Story News!
That’s right! Time for a news break! If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may recall a few weeks ago, I wrote about some “firsts” in my writing life; one of which was rewriting an old story from scratch. To briefly recap, I was asked to contribute…
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Writing Outside Your Genre
For the last two years, I have participated in a couple of NYC Midnight’s writing challenges, specifically the Short Story and Screenwriting Challenges. Last year, I made it to the second round of both contests. Right now, I’m waiting on results from the first round of each contest to see if I…
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Firsts
This week, I am embarking on a couple of firsts for my writing career. The first “first” came earlier this month when I was invited to contribute a story to an upcoming anthology. I’ve never been asked to submit anything, so that’s exciting! The topic for the anthology is “tales of the…
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Rejection Goal: 100
This week, I was going to talk about how busy I’ve suddenly become. I was going to tell you all about how I heard back from the publisher that requested the full transcript of Gas Giant Gambit, and how they were just telling me they hadn’t gotten a chance to read…
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Perseid Prophecies
*”Perseid” is misspelled in the URL because I misspelled it in the title of this blog! But even though I can easily fix both, I won’t be fixing the URL because then all the links I shared will break. Oh well, just goes to show you should always spell check!…
E.S. Raye 