It’s autumn story round-up time! I had a few stories come out, both new and reprints, during August and September, but clearly have been remiss in actually mentioning them.
Oddly enough, they’re all military-themed to some degree. I don’t often write about the military, so it’s weird these three stories hit all at once.
Steadfast in Does it Have Pockets
This is a reprint that first appeared in Flash Fiction Online. It is also a modern retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier, complete with a gender flip and unapologetic happy ending.
Rules of Engagement, second place prose (veteran) in the 2023 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards from Line of Advance
New story alert! I won’t say much about this one, except the title is a play on words.
Field Manual for Waiting in Women on Writing 3rd Quarter 2023 Creative Nonfiction Contest
A reprint, but the first time you can read it online. Fair warning: this is a piece of creative nonfiction that involves grief. You can also read an interview I did with the editors at WOW, where we discuss, among other things, current writing projects and ghosts.
Writing Wrongs 
Lovely news! And lovely, lovely stories, too.
Congratulations — hope you enjoy the warm glow of this success through winter months ahead!
Oh, thank you. I’ve sent out so little these past several months that this feels like I’m finally getting back into writing and submitting on at last a semi-regular basis.
Hi there! And welcome to the New Year!
I don’t know if you’re on the fence about Bloganuary this year, but I’m giving it a try… and reviving a long-dormant wordpress blog to use for my responses (https://artifactsandannotations.wordpress.com/)
I hope all is well with you and your family — would love to see you around!
Oh, it’s so good to see you! I’ve been heads down, finishing the novel I’ve been working on. In the home stretch! I hope to start blogging a bit more, but I won’t be doing the January challenge. However, I just subscribed to your WordPress site so I don’t miss a thing.
Hello Charity,
It is lovely to hear from you. Finishing a novel sounds like a great project, and greatly satisfying work, too.
I’m not sure what my hopes are for the blogging project, but I like the feeling of being in a more anonymous space where I can write material that might be rougher, where I don’t feel the obligation to speak to a long-standing audience. If it helps establish a small but more regular habit, it would make me happy.
Anyway, looking forward to news about your forthcoming novel — congratulations on nearing the end!
–Anne
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