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The Best Of The Net Nomination: Worldbuilding (opens the original)
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Oh wow—my friends, and I mean this with humility as I’m trying to make sense of it all, but this marks my fourth Best of the Net nomination for the season. I don’t think this has happened before, or if so, it feels like a long time ago as these days I feel like a bit of a washed up writer.I write this with such sincerity, truly—thank you to the editors of Twisted Tongue Press for giving this tiny piece a home and for The Best of the Net nomination.Humbled. Grateful. Thankful.This micro-fiction o
The Best Of The Net Nomination For The Teeth And Cloth Festival (opens the original)
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Just a bit ago, I found out that my flash fiction piece The Teeth And Cloth Festival was nominated for The Best Of The Net by Afterimages.Truly a gem of a surprise, and I’m so elated to be listed alongside such contributors for such a nomination.A sincere thank you to Josh Dale and the masthead for first taking in this story, and then to
Creative Nonfiction Publication: The Acadiana Mall Fairy Tales (opens the original)
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Many thanks to Andy Brown, the editor of Scrawl Place, for giving this personal narrative about my memories of the Acadiana Mall, here in Lafayette, LA, a space.It’s called “The Acadiana Mall Fairy Tales.”In December of 2025, I <a href="htt
A Radio Head (opens the original)
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I wasn’t planning on posting today—apologies if I’ve been flooding the inbox lately, but I wanted to share a bit of the afternoon.Usually on Sunday mornings, I drive around town and listen to music—today though, I was a bit late to it. This is my first time recording myself while doing so.I just thought I’d share a few clips of intense focus on trying to sing along to that song about the jeans and the boots and all.Then a couple of more, tracing No Diggity—a bit of pure honesty now. For the long
The Corner Bookshelf (opens the original)
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Second bookshelf added to the house—the home is getting a bit more home, as I’m always thinking about this particular room.Much like the first bookshelf—I’m putting the base and the head shelves backward by mistake, but maybe that can be just like my signature. Like, “hey, look at the top and the bottom of the shelf—that must be a somdaz production.”I’ll go with it. Since I’m trying to keep the colors of the bookshelves somewhat similar, my first thought was to paint over the white shelves, or t
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