Thanks, all y’all!
By popular demand, my story “The Drowning Pool” has been selected for inclusion in Microfiction Monday’s print anthology! Thanks to everybody who voted for my story!
Here’s a picture of a baby Corgi as a thank you.
Pages
Stories
- A Bouquet of Stars
- A Brief Account of the Life of Jane "Jinny" Bunford
- A Burning Girl
- A Fluttering of Wings
- A Girl Detective Decides
- A Girl in Pieces
- A House with Mughal-Style Doors
- A Nearly Beautiful Thing
- A Pitcher Like You
- A Place You Can See the Stars
- A Soft Heart
- A Superhero Love Story
- A Swan's Heart
- A Trip to the Moon
- After the Concert
- All Ghosts Are White People
- All the Kids Go
- All the Love Songs are Really About Broken Hearts
- All the Office Ladies
- Aloysius Hunkapiller
- An Apartment on the Moon
- An Emptiness Forever
- And I Still Remember How Your Hands Were So Much Larger Than Mine
- And She Was
- And We Never Die
- Angel Fish
- Anything But Emptiness
- Aquarium
- Attic Girls
- Autumn Everywhere
- Baxter's Girl
- Being the Murdered Actress
- Being the Murdered Chanteuse
- Being the Murdered Clerk
- Being the Murdered Coed
- Being the Murdered Doll Collector
- Being the Murdered Extra
- Being the Murdered Girl
- Being the Murdered Girlfriend
- Being the Murdered Homecoming Queen
- Being the Murdered Lover
- Being the Murdered Mama
- Being the Murdered Mermaid
- Being the Murdered Moll
- Being the Murdered Pageant Girl
- Being the Murdered Professor
- Being the Murdered Spelling Bee Champion
- Being the Murdered Stripper
- Being the Murdered Teacher
- Being the Murdered Wife
- Belonging
- Between the Liking and the Pretending
- Birds That Never See the Sky
- Birds We Had Become
- Bitter Tea
- Bottle Sister
- Charlie's Wife
- Chikan, Chikan
- Cliffs of Tojinbo
- Clockwork Heart
- Closer to the Moon
- Cowboy Loves Lily Sue
- Curve and Sway
- Daisies Like Galaxies
- Death Is Colder than Space
- Diamonds Between Us
- Egg Babies Easily Broken
- Every Girl Who Got in a Car
- Everybody Loves the Boy Detectives
- Float and Disappear
- Ghost Among Ghosts
- Hail to the Elephant King
- Handsome American Weeping Boy
- Here There Be Giants
- How the Hamster Died
- How We Fossilize
- If the Fluttering of Butterfly Wings
- In Another Universe
- In Pieces
- In the Crowded Spaces
- Into Sleep
- It's Not Love
- Last Scene
- Like Doll Parts
- Like Light from Dead Stars
- Like the Depth of Parsley in Butter
- Little Bohemia
- Love Song of the World's Tallest Man
- Math Lesson
- Other Women Trio
- Phone Calls from Loretta
- Photos of a Dead Actress
- Remembering How to Breathe
- Round and Round
- Safe in the Dark
- She Doesn't Anymore
- Signs Now All the Time
- So Much Closer Now
- Something That Can Never Be Held
- Starlings
- Storm Girls
- Sugar Family
- That Fall, the Things that Died
- That Night, in Your Room
- That Time You Went to the Store and Never Returned
- The Arborist Falls in Love
- The Astronaut's Wife Considers Perspective
- The Axe Murderer Doesn't Get Caught
- The Bones
- The Boy from the Moon
- The Delicate Art of Ikebana
- The Difference Between Alligators and Crocodiles
- The Drowning Pool
- The Falling Girls
- The Fattest Dog in the World
- The Former Dancer's Husband
- The Former Yo-Yo World Champion Plans His Day
- The French Film of Your Life is in Black and White
- The Ghost Always Remains
- The Ghost Haunting You
- The Ghost in this Story
- The Ghost of a Very Small Thing
- The Ghosts at the Carwash are Always Looking for Company
- The Girl in the Water
- The Girls in the Yard
- The Hero Falls
- The Hole in the Center of Everything
- The Hollow Where His Heart Would Be
- The Largest Man
- The Largest Man
- The Magician's Affair
- The Mermaid
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
- The Octopus Princess
- The Quiet Behind Her
- The Quiet of Giraffes
- The Scent of Kodokushi
- The Sky is Nothing at All
- The Snow that Does Not Fall
- The Straw Castle
- The Surviving Conjoined Twin Learns the Art of Kirigami
- The Warrens of Virginia
- The Whole Girl Detective Thing
- There Are Unseen Things Everywhere
- There Were Balloons
- There's No One Here Who Sounds Like You
- These Are Their Names
- These Clouds Are Not the Same Clouds; This Sky Is Not the Same Sky
- Things We've Found in Our Hair
- This Empty Place
- This is His Wife
- This Is Not Your Beautiful House
- This Love Will Destroy You
- This Place Will Never Keep You
- This Would Be the Perfect Day
- Three Apocalypse Girlfriend Stories
- Three Japan Stories
- Through the Veil of Her Hair
- Together on the Moon
- Transformation, Metamorphosis, Swan
- Two Astronaut Love Stories
- Two Micro-Fictions
- We Are All Orphans
- We Could Be Trees Together
- We Used to Play with Baby Dolls
- What a Headless Boy Would See
- When the Children Return
- Where the Drowned Ride
- Where You Never Thought You'd Be
- Your Girlfriend as a Radium Watch Face
- Your Girlfriend as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
- Your Girlfriend as Classroom Drills
- Your Girlfriend as the American Dream
- Your Mother and the Fairies
- Your Mother Held the Ocean
- Your Mother Sings When She's Alone
- Your Sister's Children Always Disappear
- Your Stepfather, the Giraffe
- Adventure Time Akira Alan Moore Amanda Seyfried androids Assassins Batman Battlestar Galactica Benedict Cumberbatch Bob's Burgers Bruce Campbell is a god BUNNIES! Burn Notice Buster Keaton Chris Evans Chuck Cillian Murphy Cowboy Bebop Cylons Dale Cooper Death Note Elijah Snow Eric Elbogen Evil Dead Evil sea creatures Fringe Futurama Godzilla Halloween Han Solo Heroes Hot Fuzz Ian McKellen I hate Disney Johnny Depp Keanu Reeves is a wooden actor Kristen Bell L Magneto Marilyn Monroe Martin Freeman Michael Fassbender Monkeys will kill us all Ninja Olympics! Planetary Princess Bride Ray Park Robert Downey Jr. Robots Say Hi Sherlock Sherlock Holmes Simon Pegg Spiderman Spike Spiegel Star Wars Stephen King Superman Takeshi Kaneshiro Tak Sakaguchi The Simpsons The Terminator The Thing TV that annoys Twilight Twin Peaks vampires Veronica Mars Warren Ellis Wolverine X-Files X-Men Zachary Levi zombies
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- I Write a Teen Romance (16)
- Pickup Lines of the Famous and Fictional (6)
- Randomosity (248)
- Stuff that Bugs Me Right Now (213)
- The Movie I'm not Seeing this Weekend (223)
- Things I Want (55)
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Hollywood Hates Me 
Jamin said,
February 5, 2016 at 4:42 pm
Yay! Glad it got selected, it was a good-un!
Jamin said,
February 5, 2016 at 4:46 pm
Also, “Yay” for pictures of baby corgis! Someday, I will have a corgi and I will name it Ein.
lokifire said,
February 6, 2016 at 3:00 pm
OK, I guess I’ll call my corgi “Ein 2” so we don’t mix them up.
Jamin said,
February 8, 2016 at 12:45 pm
Heh… “One 2.”
lokifire said,
February 8, 2016 at 12:56 pm
Yeah, I don’t know enough German to call him Ein Whatever The German Word For Two is.
Jamin said,
February 8, 2016 at 1:12 pm
Zwei (pronounced Tsvie).
lokifire said,
February 8, 2016 at 1:52 pm
Yeah, “Ein 2” is good enough for me!
lokifire said,
February 6, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Thank you!