The Trailer Addict site's embed button didn't work, but it is worth clicking through from here. I must see this film. You could also go to The Secret of Kells site directly and see amazing images. Thank you, JES, for cluing me in. If it doesn't come to Austin, I will cry. Do you see …
Publication!
My art made it here! Crazy. A person whose thoughts and writing I respect became a fan of this magazine on Facebook. This is how I found this new publication. I contacted the editor, submitted a story and art. The story may or may not make it in a later issue, but he asked for …
How do you know you’ve won?
I like to win things, don't you? And I'm a sucker for a compliment. But... When I won a poetry award in high school, I hid the trophy and eventually threw it away. Pigs will be crashing landing on your roof before I frame a degree or certificate and hang it on the wall. In …
Can this marriage be saved?
Click on the letter to read what he wrote to me. I don't remember what I wrote back, but I probably didn't say, "Are you crazy?" Why did he feel he had to marry her? Are they still married today? They bought a house and had a couple kids. That's all I know since he …
almost brave enough
I composed a post in my head. Revised it. Considered pictures to go with it. Then chickened out. That's the thing with writing--it is so easy to chicken out. Shake my head. Feel the knots pulling in my stomach. No reason to go there. It's probably a big deal only to me. Why embarrass myself …
12-Foot-Tall Fighting Amazon
We dispatched the 12-foot Amazon with a spear. They thought she was dead, but it was her most common trick. She waited until they turned their backs, pulled the spear from her chest, and sent it right back, going through one head and then the next. In college I worked as a nighthost. This meant …
She’s no child of mine.
"She's not my real daughter," the woman said. "She's adopted." "Oh," I said. "Well, sure." I didn't know what to say. Her adopted daughter had gone into the clinic and the woman had come over to chat. That's what I thought. I thought that since she'd driven this adopted child of hers to the clinic …
Things You Shouldn’t Write About
"Nazi! Slave owner! Child molester!" the man shouted into his bullhorn. He stood on the sidewalk. He wasn't allowed to come any closer. The man knelt beside his daughter, about 6 years old. "See that lady over there? She kills babies!" I sipped my coffee. I looked over at B. "I saw the movie Amelie …
Rent people.
I like to connect stories. A main character in this novel has a bit part in another. The characters live in the same town at different times. You don't have to read my novels in any particular order exactly and each story stands alone, but if you did read them all, you might happen to …
Marta Bacon 