My eight-year-old recently asked why so many Disney movies feature deceased or wicked mothers. After a moment to reflect, I answered, “Because if the main characters had positive role models and caregivers, they would get into a lot less trouble and then there wouldn’t be a story.” In Disney’s first full-length animated feature film, Snow…
As you may have learned by now, this year’s anthology theme is “True Story.” Editors Amy and Deb invite open interpretation of the prompt and rightly so. Like most human constructs, truth exists on a spectrum, at least insofar as it pertains to literature. On one end of the scale lies biography and other journalistic…
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When my mother passed, I inherited her Hammond organ. My husband, both an engineer and a guitarist, welcomed it into our home, for it was the same model used by The Allman Brothers, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Pink Floyd, and other rock bands in the 70s. After doing some basic oiling and repair of the…
Honestly, I was kinda blogged out—until, after a multitude of phone calls and emails to kickstart a LOA from my night job, the following thought occurred to me: “Rainey, you forgot to give characters in your new WIP health challenges, and/or physical limitations.” Oh, for Heaven’s sake. Below, I’ve listed those that came to mind:…