Back from the silence! I have vanquished the Real Life Stress and am now back to the world of fun craziness. Big news first - my story "Drifter" has come out in a newly released anthology by Dark Oak Press called "Big Bad - An Anthology of Evil". You can buy it in hardback, paperback,… Continue reading Big Bad News!!
Author: Nico Serene
Heroine,
Writer,
Master of Tiny Dogs
(guess which one is most difficult)
Stress and the Real World
Forgive me, Internet, for I have sinned. It has been over a month since my last post. For a blog mainly about writing, wackiness, and creativity, you can surely tell when all that dries up due to Real World Stress. More specifically, job related stress. I've learned a lot about the effects of stress on… Continue reading Stress and the Real World
A Cell Phone Memorial
NPR runs a contest called Three-Minute Fiction. Round 1o's prompt was to write a story as a voice mail message and under 600 words. The winner was announced yesterday: Lisa Rubenson from Charlotte, NC (yay, a Charlottean!) And so here is my "non-winning" entry. ___________________ “Hey, this is Sam. I’m probably out doing something fun.… Continue reading A Cell Phone Memorial
PostSecret
Every Sunday morning is pretty much the same - coffee, pancakes, and reading PostSecret.com. Sometimes those pancakes have chocolate chips in them. This has been my ritual for years now ever since discovering the PostSecret project. The premise of the whole thing is to send a handmade, anonymous postcard that tells a personal secret no one… Continue reading PostSecret
The Reflections of My Reflection
The only way I could get her attention was to change something. Change was rather difficult to do on my side but I was frustrated and desperate. She just wasn't seeing me anymore. Though she would stare right at me, every single day, she would not SEE. So I cut my hair off and dyed it a… Continue reading The Reflections of My Reflection
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