I was pleased and surprised when I checked my mail and found a copy of Donkey Drabbles: Very Short Stories About the Long Ears We Love, reformatted and re-issued from the original. Donkey Drabbles was a project put together by The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada, which invited volunteers, staff, and friends (I fall into the latter category) to submit “drabbles,” or 100-word pieces, about the donkeys.
I contributed a drabble titled “Grooming Danny,” which recounted my experiences with one particular donkey during a visit to the Sanctuary on one of the Open Days. The reformatted book is larger than the original, and attractively laid out. The book is available through the Sanctuary’s Long Ears Boutique, which can be browsed online.
Recent Publications
Cartoons:
“Getting
Older,” posted on Little Old Lady Comedy, January
21, 2025, https://www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/getting-older
“Tortoise and Hare,” posted on Little Old Lady Comedy, January 7, 2025, https://www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/tortoise-and-hare
Nonfiction:
“Visiting
Strange Futures Through Compact Storytelling,” an interview with Stewart C
Baker, author of The Butterfly Disjunct and Other
Stories, published on Interstellar Flight Magazine, January
17, 2025, https://magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/visiting-strange-futures-through-compact-storytelling-51fdf55d99b7
Reviews:
Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill, by
Catherine Tsalikis, posted on The Seaboard Review, January
20, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/chrystia-from-peace-river-to-parliament-hill
“Feeling Stuck? Dan Heath’s Reset Offers Help,” a review of Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working, by Dan Heath, The Seaboard Review, posted January 27, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/reset-by-dan-heath
The Infinite Heist, by Stephen Graham King, posted on Amazing Stories: Clubhouse January 13, 2025, https://amazingstories.com/2025/01/clubhouse-guest-review-the-infinite-heist-by-stephen-graham-king/
“McDonald’s Memoir Reflects on the Power of Yes,” a review of Just Say Yes by Bob McDonald, appeared on The Miramichi Reader site January 12, 2025, https://miramichireader.ca/2025/01/mcdonalds-memoir-reflects-on-the-power-of-yes/
“Selecky Helps Writers Fine-Tune Their Mindset: Story is a State of Mind,” a review of Story is a State of Mind by Sarah Selecky, published on The Seaboard Review Substack site, January 6, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/story-is-a-state-of-mind-sarah-selecky
Starter Villain, by John Scalzi, posted on Goodreads, January 16, 2025, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7221930499
The Storm of Progress, by Wade Rowland, The Seaboard Review, posted January 13, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-storm-of-progress-by-wade-rowland
“Through the Portal Offers Hope Amid Dystopia,” a review of Through the Portal: Tales from a Hopeful Dystopia, edited by Nina Munteanu and Lynn Hutchinson Lee, posted on The Seaboard Review, January 13, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/through-the-portal-stories
What I’m
Working On
For my own
writing, I’ve declared 2025 as “the year of nonfiction.” Book reviews, news stories,
articles, and a couple of projects I’ve had on the back burner will be the
focus, though I’ll still work on the occasional poem or fiction piece.
Coming Soon
My flash
story “Stealing Time” will be published on Havok February 4.
“Stealing Time” will be free for viewing on February 4th only on the
Havok site. I also have work scheduled to appear in the February 2025 issues of
Spaceports and Spidersilk and Scifaikuest.
