Oonahverse

And so this is Christmas

2011-12-14T02:35:00.000-08:00

May it be as Merry or as Peaceful as you wish it to be!

I have several stories and poems up this month and I will add all the links to date by the end of this week. But let me begin with what Nathan Rosen tells me is my 72nd microhorror and one of his favourites of mine.

If you ask me, Santa brought it on himself by embracing the commercial ethos of the late twentieth century and disregarding his 'elf ;) and you can read the outcome in ELF DAY live at Microhorror now.
Poems at Bewildering Stories

A Final Seal
Department Store

If Ever - Pantoum for the Present - in Parallel Oonahverse

A little unexpectedly, this very short short in Postcardshorts Public Transport You know the scenario - it a familiar one. So glad to be in this little gem of a writing site for the first time. And Crumpled Note - a scenarion familiar I hope, to no one.

The Linnet's Wings has published a very short piece entitled I'd Love a ... and I'll bet anyone my age at least in the UK and Ireland will be able to fill in the blank :) It was the perfect solution to the the Christmas Eve problem of how to be Santa.

Look below and you'll find an intriguing clue to my BOXING DAY story at Every Day Fiction. My Measuring Stick

Apollo's Lyre has just published Nobody in the Room. and while you're there check out this story by my friend John Ritchie

I wrote a story for this photo and it is published Boxing Day 2011

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My Measuring Stick - BOXING DAY 2011 - Every Day Fiction

Three Years and A New Poem Every Day

2011-10-31T17:13:00.000-07:00

I am so proud of what we have achieved at EDP

but

None of would be possible without our dedicated staff and entusiastic poets and readers.

Thank you all

HAPPY HALLOWE'EN

2011-10-30T16:18:00.000-07:00

I have a story published at BwS this week (starting 31st)

and there are reading treats for you over at Parallel Oonahverse.

My decorations are up and my apple tart is baked.

Life is good

maybe it takes a Day of the Dead to remind us of that sometimes.

How does she do it?

LIVE at The Cumberland Arms

2011-10-22T06:44:00.000-07:00

Ten minutes of my poetry, read by me at The Cumberland Arms, Byker, 22nd September 2011.

Thanks to everyone there for making it such a great evening.

TAKE TEN is a regular event on the last Thursday of every month presided over by the Poetry Jack and on this occasion I had the privilege of sharing the stage with:

so while you're at it look and see what they all did!

Final few days in Baltimore

2011-10-12T08:20:00.000-07:00

I hate goodbye. I just cry - can't cope at all - so much so I make myself miserable before the event! I have this Grim Reaper mentality a kind of morbidity - ever since I was a child. This was Hamilton on Columbus Day 11th Oct 2010. We had Apple Pie which is very American but I have to confess I prefer Apple Tart which is very British and I will be making that for Hallow'en as I usually do. My mother used to put sixpence in the tart, in greaseproof paper. Whoever got it, kept it.

On the 12th Oct we went to the American Visual Arts Museum Follow the link. It's a fascinating place to visit. We had a crab soup in The Rusty Scupper and watched an incredible Mock Battle played out by wonderful ships in the Inner Harbour.
That night we went for our final meal with Nathan and Jenesta at TALARA.

Of course on the 13th we had until 6pm before we had to go to the airport - time to buy some Old Bay Spices and a few last minute presents take a stroll before that 8 hour flight - home.

Maryland Renaisance Festival 2010

2011-10-10T12:20:00.000-07:00

10/10/10 He is the real Robin - I just know it! I would trust him with my life! Any man who looks that good in tights and invites you to Buy Your Passport to Merriement Here - must surely be worth better aquaintantance. Robin I forgot to give you my e-mail - "I grow weak in the presence of beauty" - contact Nathan.

And there was Snot and Puke and giant turkey legs and curly fries, Oktober ale and elephant rides and Drown a Duke and Wet a Wench and many other questionable sports and PIRATES - AH pirates that could wring your very bones with song - and beers that would quench your tears.

If you have a chance to go to the Ren Fest - go! It's the most fun you can have with a toy moose down your boobs! - On me dit...

Nathan, Jenesta - Thank you. That was not the end of the day and thankfully not the last moot - but it was a hoot!

Baltimore and beyond

2011-10-02T04:44:00.000-07:00

9th Oct 2010 - Flag House Museum. This is a marvellous place to visit. The story of Mary Pickersgill is completely compelling. She was the lady who designed the Star Spangled Banner - the very flag that flew over Fort McHenry and inspired the anthem. With a group of seamstresses, she hand stitched the flag from English Bunting so fine you can almost see through it. Scraps of the original; flag are still to be seen.
That flag by the way was some 36 feet high! Two stripes of it were the height of a man. Each star was double sided. To give you some idea of the feat - the depiction on the side of the building is the size of the original flag.

It took 20 men to hoist it up the pole at Fort McHenry.
But more than that the woman herself is an inspiration. She was a strong and innovative woman who made her own way in life. She was commissioned to make the flag because she made naval pennants.

and you can see her house, as it was, wonderful original objects - look out for the toaster! :)

We met a few lovely ladies there too who were working there that day. One of them posessed a Bible with the faded word 'Neagh' written in it. She said her family was Irish. I was then able to tell her that they came from Co. Antrim - probably the shores of Lough Neagh near the town of Antrim. I do hope she was able to follow that through.

If you go to Baltimore do not miss this great attraction. Then go to Little Italy (just across the road) for a bite to eat or a cake at VACCARIOS - another thing not to be missed!

GHOST WALKS ARE SCARY

Scariest of all Nathan Rosen

On October the 8th we were rudely awakened at 9am by a fire alarm and had to trek all the way down those steps again - this time in my kaftan and nothing else. I always pack a kaftan :) We were so far beyond tired at this point that my diary is - sparce. But as day deepened into night we found ourselves in the company of Jenesta and Nathan once again - and a lot of other spooky folks who were gathered for a Ghost Tour (pub crawl) in Fells Point. And at this point having expressed it all so well (and in partial verse - I hope you're suitably impressed!) last time, I will refer you to that item in my parallel blog.

The 7th was the day we went to D.C. with Jen Stakes and we viewed the Constitution at the Rotunda, had lunch in the gardens, walked along the Mall and visited the Library of Congress which impressed me greatly.

Mosaic in the Library of Congress, D.C.

It was great to spend the day with Jen who was a most attentive guide and poetic wif it :)

6th October 2010 This was the day we went to Westminster Hall to visit the grave of Edgar Allen Poe and it was totally amazing - connections with Co. Antrim all over the place. It turned out even McHenry (as in Fort McHenry) was from Co Antrim as am I. Anyway, centre above with the little Raven carving is where he rests, I hope in perfect peace.
(I pay tribute to his work in tomorrow's Editor's View in Every Day Poets.)

5th October 2010 The Mutter Medical Museum - one of the most interesting and saddest places I’ve ever visited

Nathan Thank you for the day X

On the 4th October 2010 we met Jennifer Stakes who took us to the best bookshop in Baltimore - he also sold amber jewelry - cheap :)
Jen in Book Escape.

and we took her to the best cake shop Vaccarios in Little Italy.

If you are in Baltimore off season the water taxi service is slower. On Sundays it's slower still but there are the Charm City Circualtors - free buses - safe to ride and the drivers are helpful. We discovered they are fewer on a Sunday too - much as you'd expect. However if you are based near the Inner Harbour as we were there are always plenty of things to do within easy walking distance and so on the 3rd we ended up exploring USS Coast Guard TANEY - the last Pearl Harbour ship. I really enjoyed all the history and the oily smell and the video. I didn't enjoy getting up and down that superstructure in a skirt - so if you go there two things:
1. Wear trousers
2. Look here

There are 4 flights like that - two up and two back down.

2nd October 2010 and The Science Centre in Baltimore certainly took us BEYOND. The 3D film - astronauts suiting up, Hubble repairs, nebulae and distant galaxies... We just sat there - silent - awestruck at the end. I want to go again.

I have to say that the winds inside the Hurricane Chamber that Nathan so gleefully put me in, went up to 70mph and I have experienced worse than in nature - but it was a buffetting and tame compared to the recent blasts that hit Baltimore causing structural damage and bringing down many trees (including one just outside Nathan's house, which thankfully only took down the lines and not the roof!).

Anyway - not to reinvent the wheel, you can see photos from the Science Centre here and I thoroughly reccommend you go there and see that inspiring movie for yourself.

A Bit More Baltimore - Nostalgia

2011-09-26T04:21:00.000-07:00

Blatant one word advert VACCARIO'S

1st October 2010 The Piratz Tavern.

This place has mixed reviews and I can see how it could vary according to what's going on there but we were there to hear Pirates for Sail.

Fred & Jen and Congratulations on the expected addition to your family X

The band was great, the ambience was great and the food was great. The Steak on a stone was incredible and I loved the decor. We met Jennifer and Fred that night too which was a real joy to me, as I'd known Jennifer on-line for about two years.
It was a pity Jenesta wasn't well and couldn't be there with us.

Flood level

Normally we'd wait inside Pratt St Shopping Centre in air conditioned bliss unti the water taxi showed up but on the 30th Sept 2010 a tornado tracked up the east coast and we awoke to horizontal rain. I went for a swim and we waited until 3pm before we ventured out and even then it was difficult to walk. Harbour One was under police cordon and the water covered all the way down from where I have indicated with the arrow. Branches had blown off trees outside The Galleries shaopping centre by the time we came out of there and we sidled into PF Chang's for some early dinner that evening to allow the wind to die down then went for a drink in the irish bar just across from the hotel. They do a 16 year old Bushmills Malt - very nice. That was a day with a difference - and it was still HOT

29th today. Well we went to Canton on this day last year.

We just wandered a bit had lunch in Nacho Mama's and came back. By this time we were getting tired as we'd been on the go ever since we stepped off the plane and it was so very HOT. But we a had a relaxing day and the weather on the 30th made sure we got a good rest too! Because........?
28th September 2010 Had a swim in the hotel pool. Wandered over to Barnes and Nobel and met Zeke the zombie who insisted on immediate adoption and later starred in the MicroHorror video. We explored The Constellation, met Jenesta and Nathan for dinner at TALARA where we ate outside and I think everything on the menu - the bread pudding is to die for! Then back in the hotel we did the film in one take! And you can still see us on YouTube What a great day!

This poem was published in Modicum Issue Two

This year's microhorror competition should be coming up soom btw and I hope you'll all join in.

On 27th we set out by Water Taxi to visit Fort McHenry and take in the story of the Star Spangled Banner itself and the events that led to those words being penned.

It being out of season it was quiet at the fort and a lot of the summer activity available to visitors, re-enactments and such were not on but this man gave us a full on performance of the life of a sailor in the early 19th Century despite the fact that we were his only client and he was outstanding. And here is Noel standing near the place where that flag still flew in the dawn's early light.

Every day this week at least one photo from a year ago. On the 26th Sept 2110 we went to The National Aquarium with Jenesta and Nathan. We spent from 10:30 a.m. 'til 5 p.m. explororing the world's oceans and I have about a hundred photos. Ever wanted to see a shark's this close up? Or how about this friendly fellow?

No? Well there's always the Dolphin Show:

the 4D film show - yes I said 4D and the Australia House with breathtaking views and flying foxes and lots of colourful birds. A great place to spend a day. And afterwards Nathan took us to their favourite Mexican Restaurant, Mari Luna. Good food - good company!

Baltimore Nostalgia

2011-09-23T09:57:00.000-07:00

For the next three weeks I am going to take you on a little nostalgia trip to Baltimore MD and if you've never been there, I strongly suggest you visit. Forget NY, forget DC, forget San Francisco and Miami - Baltimore is the place to be :)

This time last year we were in Baltimore. We arrived there on Setpember 22nd straight from 16 to 33 degrees - it was HOT. Luckily we'd booked into a really good hotel and could turn the air-con down to the comfortable 62 degrees we wanted and put the fan on to augment the effect.
Hilton Homewood Suites S. President St. Baltimore. You are COOL.

On September 23rd I had the privilege of meeting one of the poets whose work I have published and she is such a lovely person. She took us to Tea Volve where they sell all manner of teas and tasty food.
Jody Costa - lots of love x

Of course we did other things that day too like taking the Water Taxi to Fells Point and having a cheese steak in a local hostelry - not the last cheese steak nor the last hostelry! In fact we've barely scratched the surface of Fells Point and will have to go back and do it properly.

DOMINO EFFECT

by Oonah

Platform boats.

The Inner Harbour

peppered with eateries

salted with people

seasoned as its age-old modern self.

It smells like diesel doughnuts

Old Bay and history.

On the 24th we headed over to Lexington Market but it was so hot a day we didn't linger long. We got the Charm City Circulator free bus outside the Dental Museum and headed back to explore nearer the hotel. We discovered TALARA! HUGE MISTAKE! MAJOR TEMPTATION! But in the evening there came the moment I was looking forward to - the reason for my trip to Baltimore - NATHAN ROSEN of MicroHorror. And just as the hour struck - there was a fire alarm and all the lifts went dead so we had to walk down the 24 flights from floor 11.

I just grabbed him! I terrified the poor man! But we all went out for Crab Cakes and - well - love you two very much!

Nathan Jenesta

Just round the corner from the hotel - Wharf 7 Taxi Point

25th Sept and we headed over via Water Taxi to the Tourist Center on Pratt Street to take a guided bus tour which proved so informative that we used the information we gleaned from the tour guide Bob, to inform the rest of our visits during our stay. We had three weeks in Baltimore. There's so much to see and do there that three weeks wasn't enough time to pack in all the wonderful sights but that bus tour gave us an idea of the city's many attractions and it was great just for orientation. We found restaurants that way. We found out walking routes close to the hotel, the Flag Museaum, Fort McHenry, Baltimore screens that we'd never have seen were it not for that tour. I recommend it.

That's Bob at the front

View from Water Taxi looking towards Pratt Street, Inner Harbour 1

You can see our hotel here to the right of that grey stantion, the high rise pink brick building in the background. An easy walk away from the Pick-up point.

I stood up at the Mega Poetry Slam in Durham

2011-09-03T07:24:00.000-07:00

It was on Thursday 1st in benefit of a Mental Health Centre in Waddington St and 30 poets were there to take part so it was MEGA. I came second in my group of 5 and that is no mean feat for someone who has made so few public spectacles of herself.
Thank you to Amanda Baker for cheering me on and for taking this photo.

Amanda has a CHARITY event of her own coming up on
October 4th
8:30 - 9:45
Morpeth Rugby Club

for Pearl of Africa Child Care Ltd. Charity No 1122809

SNAIL LOVE be there if you can.
Amanda is a wondeful entertainer and Edinburgh Fringe Poet and FUNNY with it :)

Holy Island July and August

2011-08-15T14:45:00.000-07:00

The best thing to do is make like sheep - wander about a bit and graze at leisure, find the odd watering hole and stop a while, wander and graze again. I don't think enough people do that. We're all so busy rushing around with scowls on our faces. Even the Island doesn't elicit a smile from some, so busy are they making themselves unhappy - want want want! I even heard some people talking about shopping in the supermarket. W?H?Y? Have we really become so souless? And my wee camera clicked away and took a few visual memories, yes but there were folk with tripods and zoom lenses stacked like dinner plates.

We went back to retrieve the coat that had been left hanging in the wardrobe the first time :) Not that any excuse was needed. It had been too long and visits were well overdue and it was lovely to get reacquainted with our friend and with the island. I'll be back soon.

The Farne Islands as seen from Lindisfarne and Bamburgh Castle on the Northumerland Coast, right.

Every Day Inspirations June 2011 Photos

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Inspiration 2011/06/06

Armchair Observations - about the poems

2011-03-16T08:41:00.000-07:00

The first of these Armchair Observations came on the 5th Dec 2010 with one of the most astounding NASA photos of the day. How can the moon shine through a mountain? It turned out to be to do with and anticrepuscular (ah a new word :) ) shadow. The sunset had projected a shadow of the mountain onto the twilight sky and the moon was rising through that shadow. It is a stunning aspect and immediately brought to my mind the masonry image of the all seeing eye, the pyramids, and how I as the observor seemed almost to play the role of the Sun. When you see something as spectacular as that it is bound to be insipring. The colours and the eerie sight washed over me and so my first reaction was 'O' and with that exclamation came a week of inspriation and to be honest determination to write a poem a day to suit whatever NASA threw at me.

Could I pull it off? Well the 6th December proved no less interesting. The circled shapes of the universe became thematic and this time we had alien life as well - arsenic loving bacteria, DNA that was totally different from ours, living in this volcanic soup bowl like little white beans in blue minestrone. And there I was again looking down from a height, transported from my office chair to another place with other life and yet so far I hadn't left the planet Earth. And I thought WOW this is amazing, what if the human race failed to survive? Would these bacteria begin an evolution of their own? And I began to write.

When it came to the 7th I was well and truly hooked and I could think of nothing more minimalist for a Black Hole than haiku - the perfect combination. So vast/so small and so ver COMPACT :)

And the next day the Rover Opportunity explores the Intrepid Crater on Mars. It could be the opportunity for a poem about sand without picnics, I thought... Mars is so far. I've written about a bottle of water on Mars in "Clear Sailing" also on BwS. It seems so distant and rusty compared to our silvery moon. I wonder will we ever walk there too?

11.8 million light-years away in the northern constellation Ursa Major lay the inspiration for the next poem. Ursa Major is of course the Great Bear and so Arp's loop in my mind became a swirling soup and so another poem was born and I think it turned out 'just right' ;)

On the 10th December it was the colours mostly that inspired the poem and the net of tree twigs over the moon. I thought of lace and veils and weddings then and from the NASA decription came the line,
"The thin rim of a day-old moon occulting Mars"
occulting - such a wonderfully adjectival verb!

The poem for the 11th Dec was about a spear of green light that streaked across the sky during the annual Leonid's shower. It was like one of those Spcae Oddessy moments. You think how could early man have failed to be inspired by such sights as this? How can we fail to be inspired every time we look up and realise we are travelling through the universe on this small shpere we call home? That sudden flash of light inspired me.
But Oh

that impertinent pointer
streaks the sky

green

screams
look up, look up,
look at me
potential.

Lift your mind out of the dust of Earth
lift your mind out of the dust of
man and see
Oh see what dust can do
what dust can be.

When I saw the Torre de la Guaita with the leonid trails whizzing round it just reminded me of my 'coolest' ever pressy - and LED lights fan that whizzes coloured ever changing patterns round when switched on and so I wrote this last one http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue428/observatory7.html

I have to admit I was surprised and delighted that this series turned out as well as it did from a spur of the moment exercise and it just goes to show that it pays to write - just write... and see what transpires

Armchair Observatory

2011-03-07T04:54:00.000-08:00

An entire series of poems, Armchair Observations, I call them, inspired by a week of NASA pictures of the day is beginning now at Bewildering Stories. I really did write a poem a day for a week beginning Dec 5th 2010, no matter what the picture of the day was, I wrote about it and now the first of these are up at BwS. The others will be published one a week for the next 6 weeks, each poem with a link to its picture of origin so you can see my muse. But whilst the pictures came from way out there, in space, the allusions, themes and language came from within. I hope you will follow the series.

I just love that it coincided with the 700th edition of The Sky at Night. For me, as for so many others, including Brian May and Dr. Brian Cox; whose Wonders of the Universe, (BBC2 Sundays at 9) I am also watching avidly; Patrick Moore introduced me to a lifelong fascination for all things related to the exploration of space. So in a way I suppose he inspired these poems too.

Two new stories up now

2011-02-26T02:44:00.000-08:00

Living the Lie at EDF

The Strange Disappearance of Simon Soght at MicroHorror

Westminster Hall Baltimore

2011-02-20T05:19:00.000-08:00

This is where Edgar Allan Poe is interred and where his memorial stands

Grave

memorial

and it is not far from the hospital where he died. I wish I could have gone inside but it was closed for rennovation. The light inside looks wonderful; and the space itself. I pressed my lens to the glass doors and snapped anyway.

The camera lens did not capture the shafts of light spilling into the space and it's a rather narrow angle on this impressive interior but you get some idea. I wanted to be inside testing the accoustics with a rousing chorus but it was not to be. Next time :)

Proud to be an Editor at EDP

2011-01-28T12:32:00.000-08:00

The Best of Every Day Poets Volume 1

Buy it HERE

beautifully presented - 100 contemporary poems - something for everyone - a great gift idea

My January offerings

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I love back-stroke. You lie on the water, supported but with no perceptible pressure and sound is muffled by the water line. Now close your eyes, drift... Only trouble is I get vertigo! So I have to open my eyes, twist upright, swim the stroke. This story began life in the pool. We all come from the pool - remember.
NADA - How much would you pay for nothing?

What's that light?

2011-01-08T05:13:00.000-08:00

You see there over that grave stone?

It was snowing and grey. Is that what they call an orb?

2011

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2010 Morpeth to Baltimore and back

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Morpeth

Jan, Feb, March
We both had our set-backs in the early months of the year and it just goes to show how iunpredictable and surprising a year can be! I didn't expect any of what happened next. I honestly think it has been the most surprising year of my life and certainly full of memories I will treasure for the rest of it.

Avis and me

family old and new

March April May
it all began to change - seeming endings led to new beginnings. In May we made a long overdue visit to family we knew in Suffolk and quite by coincidence, (some would say fate) met family we didn't know we had, who as it turned out live very close to us here and whom we now regard as dear friends. We also caught up with some old friends this year, Avis Hickman Gibb for a start and we met her husband Mike.

A Genie in a Jam Illustrated by Jerry Wright

June July August

Then our freinds from S Wales, Alun and Mary came to visit with us... we'd not seen them for 17 years and it was great to catch up. Next, change came again in the form of sudden early retirement for my husband. At the start of July - employed - 21st July - desk cleared and feet up :) The we had our 30th Wedding Anniversary in August and decided, instead of Barcelona, our destination should be BALTIMORE :) So we planned that. I always said I'd never fly that far but I knew that this man below was at the other end of that flight and it would be worth every minute to shake his hand.

Nathan and Jenesta

Sept, Oct Nov
My Novella, A Genie in a Jam was serialised at Bewildering Stories in the Autumn and Jerry Wright surprised me with that wonderful illustration of DJ, and late Seotember we set off to Baltimore where we had a great time getting to know Nathan Rosen of Microhorror (and I didn't shake his hand I just grabbed the poor guy and hugged the breath out of him and serve him right for being so lovely!) So I got to know Nathan and his beatiful wife, Jenesta, EDP poet Jody Costa and Writewords friend Jennifer Stakes and her husband Fred. I introduced Jennifer and Nathan and she is now Assistant Editor at microhorror :) Good work!

Then I had the privilege of setting and judging the Hallowe'en Competition I'd won for the past three years - thanks for that Nathan! Go along and read the winning entires :)

Another unexpected turn was that I was totally enthralled with Baltimore itself. I didn't want to come home! But let's face it - I'd never survive their summers! I also got to visit D.C. and Philadelphia and the Maryland Rennaissance Festival, Fort McHenry, meet Nathan's mother, Jenesta's brother... two bands of PIRATES :) Oh I enjoyed every single minute!

Jody and us

There are many more photos in Parallel Oonahverse

Now in these last few fading days of December, I finish the year with off with a story at Microhorror, Genie has been selected for The Mariner Awards at BwS and at EDP we have the delivery of out first EDP Anthology.

Yes, It's been an extraordianry year. It's been fun. It's been a year to remember.

To all my Family, Friends, Pirates, Poets, Writers,

May you have all the Love your Hearts can hold

throughout

2011

for that is worth more than GOLD

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2010-12-27T05:44:00.000-08:00

Bad Blud is a nice horror story for New Year's Eve and good news about A Genie in a Jam which has been voted best of the best at Bewildering Stories this year so if you've not read it, do.

A refreshing change :)

2010-12-20T08:18:00.000-08:00

The

Angel sang of

peace on earth

goodwill to all men

yet if you believe in angels

there is little hope of either.

If you believe in any god

he must exclude all others

and any belief cannot be in

mankind.What would an angel know

of peace on earth? What would an angel know

of death or birth or all the things between? Angels do not live

as you or I

or die.

Prometheus Bound by Robert Ford

2010-12-18T09:30:00.000-08:00

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader REVIEW

2010-12-13T09:12:00.000-08:00

My favourite Narnian story has been released as a 3D film and I'm delighted to say it was well done. The Dawn Treader was everything I thought she would be and I felt as if, at last, I'd sailed on her. I read one critique that said the film disappointed. Perhaps it would disappoint the jaded palate of a film critic, it did not let down this life-long fan of the Narnia Chronicles.

How does this compare to Harry Potter? We in this 'critic's' opinion that is like comparing the depth of MacBeth to East Enders. I did try to read a Harry Potter book - once. I haven't bothered since.

I think that the 3D format gave this film a real boost because there's such a lot of story to cover within such a small time frame, and it brought the whole thing to life. It also greatly enhanced the presence of the ship, itself a main character. That is always a difficult thing to pull off but I think it succeeds here.

Any plot adaptations that were made were in keeping with the spirit of the book and further served to unify and bring extra meaning to the themes. Also the almost noises-off presence of Susan and Peter, Anna Popplewell and Will Moseley helped continuity as it was seeing old friends.

Most main characters' faces were familiar to those who have seen the previous films. Tilda Swinton's continued presence as the embodiment of evil (a green mist this time) works well because let's face it, Tilda Swinton can be green mist if she wants to be - or anything else... Her role is one reason I hope the production team will try to make The Silver Chair - a gift vehicle for such a talent!

Reepicheep was as adorable as ever and the change of voiceover in this film I think, improves his gravitas and boy does that mouse have gravitas ;) I have to say the furry characters are much furrier in 3D and when Lucy hugged Reepicheep you could almost feel that fur. The poor, funny Puddleduffs are quite adorable too.Fellow Ballymena-man Liam Neeson is the voice of Aslan once more. (God just has to be a Ballymena man!)

In this film Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes and the very dashing Ben Barnes reprise their roles as kings and queens of Narnia. It has been said they cannot carry the story but these stories do no rely on a single set of actors to carry them. The whole point of Narnia is that the characters change but the story goes on. That depth of meaning allows Will Poulter as the obnoxious Eustace Scrubb (he really does deserve the name) to be ultimately redeemable and he can take credit for a fine artful-dodger-style performance although not for the cgi dragon...

I was interested to see how another director would handle Narnia. Michael Apted's direction was a seamless takeover from Adamson, I imagine that was a conscious decision and the right way to go. Apted did a fine job in bringing this film to the screen and as one who has waited 40 years to see it, I loved what he did with the magician's Mansion, Death Water, Dark Island, Ramandu's Island... I can't think of a single thing that didn't exceed this Narnia fan's expectations and I look forward to the next.

By the way, if you already own 3D glasses of that type with red/green lenses, they won't work here. 3D is not done like that any more. It's done by polarising lenses. Light rotates clockwise for one eye, anticlockwise for the other and then the frames are alternated on screen at terrific speed to fool your brain into thinking the images are not alternating but simultaneous. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the extended dvd so that I can study the making of... One of my favourite things about film is getting behind the scenes. Ooooo how do they do that? How did they make that water so - wet?

I was glad to hear the name Jill Pole mentioned right at the end of the film - it held out hope that I will indeed be going back to Narnia even is Edmund and Lucy will not. Can't wait.

"Once a King or Queen in Narnia, Always a King or Queen."

Treading the Boards

2010-12-12T07:53:00.000-08:00

Found this old photograph circa 1979 of me in the Glyn Derw High School Pantomime playing the swash-buckling tenor (more baritone really) with two other members of staff, Pat Cadwallader on the right and I think the one in the middle was called Liz but I'm probably completely wrong. This was my first teaching post (I taught only French in that school) and my first year in Cardiff, out on my own. I was 25.

Think I rather suited the theatrical mustache.

Not sure why this is in monochrome... Ah, the good old days ;)

Watch the Birdie

2010-12-02T09:26:00.000-08:00

Oh I haven't been in Static Movement for a few months but I'm back with a right good December love story Date that I hope you'll like and I have a couple of poems coming up in BwS so look out for those too.

There's been plenty of static movement here - we;; more stuck than static ;) We're snowy here. Over a week of snow and drifts of two feet but we've had some nice visitors too

and though you can't always catch them

it's worth having go

Even if they don't seem pally

It's MAGIC

The Fittest

2010-11-10T12:56:00.000-08:00

Okay so this particular motoring tip wouldn't do your radiator much good - but it does work - I can personally vouch for that. Sometimes a girl has to cook up a solution...

It was 1982 -ish and my first mini was overheating on the way home from school. I didn't have any groceries in the boot but I was calling into TESCO on my way home when a brilliant plan came to me - if I could make it to Tesco's car park...

Well I did :) and see what I came up with.

The Fittest

Three in a row at Microhorror

2010-11-05T10:27:00.000-07:00

Okay so I know I'm judging the competition but it was too nice a theme to miss - SPACE :) Besides would it not have been churlish to eschew the competition just because I CAN'T WIN? So here you have them - three in a row on the subject of SPACE

The Unknowable Unknown
A V O I D
Oubliette Oubliee

of which if I am allowed a favourite, it is The Unknowable Unknown.

And I'm having a great time reading all the entries! And more stories are still in the pipeline. Nathan you see had an appendectome and has got a little behind - actually quite a big behind - I was being kind :) Progress is being made - fear not!

Another chance to SHINE

2010-11-01T04:33:00.000-07:00

Hallowe’en 2006 I thought my world had come to a painful end and that, having been treated SO BADLY by people I’d thought of as friends, I had very poor judgement, was worthless and didn’t have a friend in the world. Hallowe’en 2010 I have friends all over the world - good friends!

Life's Love Affair

For all of you GOLDEN people X

Belfast

2010-10-26T13:04:00.000-07:00

Asked to write about something that defined a city we knew it came to me that Belfast was known for it's religious divide and its renowned hospitality - a strange contradiction that such friendly people should pose such a threat to each other and that so many years of misery could be caused by faith in a loving god... It brought back memories - from my youth - 3 specific ones oddly enough - a shamrock of memories - a triptich and so I wrote them down more or less without embellishment and the became The Belfast Triptich now at The Linnet's Wings and very beautifully presented.

The Baltimore Observer

2010-10-15T14:14:00.000-07:00

You see many strange things at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland. Some are in the water

Others are more - in your face...

'Does she have to do that?' 'Maybe if we ignore her she'll go away!'

Unlikely! The motto of the species is Tenax Propositi.

Nathan Rosen Reads Microhorrors

2010-09-15T03:58:00.000-07:00

A most entertaining set of readings of his own work and that of other writers is available at
MicroHorror Audio, now available at Bandcamp!

on "MicroHorror," and three classic stories by Poe, Bierce and Lovecraft
on "Legends of Horror." Learn more here: http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/microhorror/announcing-microhorror-audio/

Check it out. My favoutite story was 'Sins of the Flesh' :)

ALSO read Magnanimous Gesture on the site now.

September

2010-09-10T13:06:00.000-07:00

Mellow days of purple sedum

and an orange coloured sky

I was reminded of George Melly :)

Deej is at it again!

2010-09-08T09:54:00.000-07:00

“DJ blushed so hard, his ears burned with little bluish flames at the tips.”

O ‘eck! What’s that Genie up to this week? Find out at: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue399/genie11.html

Walter Giersbach was kind enough to say: Some mighty fine writing!

Latest

2010-08-28T03:42:00.000-07:00

Here we are at the August Bank Holiday weekend and where did that go? September is on its way and I'm going to meet the fabulous Nathan Rosen of Micro Horror this September. Really looking forward to that. And I get to choose the theme for this year's Micro Horror Hallowe'en Competition having won it three times in a row, Nathan has devised a suitable punishment ;)

There's a new micro fiction up at Doorknobs and Body Paints - Escaping Heat and I'm in the excellent company of Frances Gapper and Angeal Readman so go and have a good read - which Doorknobs always is.

Gardening Ghosts

2010-08-21T03:45:00.000-07:00

My story Should have worn wellies, is up at MicroHorror today with an unpleasant surprise for a man who just wanted a quiet life

Well would you trust these two? ;)

A Special week

2010-08-08T02:00:00.000-07:00

It has been a rather special week, a Pearl Anniversary is apt to be special. We had a meal out, flowers, champagne, friends - what more could you ask for?

The bouquet we were given by our good friends Joe and Bet

30 years ago

The gorgeous card my sister made.

And Moving Times went down well at Every Day Fiction. Thanks to everyone who read and commented :)

Inner Slip

2010-07-30T07:51:00.001-07:00

Story at Micro Horror now

Late Summer, Early Morning

2010-07-20T06:34:00.000-07:00

The weather is so sultry and over at The Pygmy Giant http://thepygmygiant.com/2010/07/20/late-summer-early-hours/ you'll see I don't sleep well on muggy nights :( We wait all year for summer, then when it comes... There's no pleasing some folk is there.

But my roses are lovely

and so are my lilies though I couldn't help a little gilding ;)

so dramatic :)

Anyone

2010-07-16T07:47:00.000-07:00

is my latest drabble at Micro Horror http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/anybody/ and over at Parallel Oonahverse there's a whole series of features and photos from the past going on, leading up to our

30th Wedding Anniversary - I'm told that's Pearl

so please visit and take a look at the quaint fashions oh-er.. of yesteryear.

taster: Me in student days at The White Rocks, Portrush.

Computers of the future

2010-07-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

not too distant future in fact, may have voice interface and they might even be able one day to hold a conversation. I had some idea what that would be like for me... Te choco logically speaking that is... and it's here at Short Humour. http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/techocologicallyspeaking.htm.

Birthday Flowers

2010-07-10T03:53:00.000-07:00

My favourite combo - sea holly and roses

Musings, Turn About and Only a Small Eden

2010-07-07T00:44:00.000-07:00

These are up now at Static Movement, Every Day Fiction and Micro Horror and of course A Genie in a Jam is still popping up at Bewildering Stories. I hope you enjoy them all. I'd say that was a good birthday week!

Musings
Turn About
Only a Small Eden

A Genie in a Jam

The Midwife

2010-06-29T12:44:00.001-07:00

For my sister Esme http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/issue58/TA-58-JOSLIN.html

A GENIE IN A JAM

2010-06-28T01:29:00.000-07:00

Illustration by Jerry Wright of Bewildering Press

First 3 chapters at Bewildering Stories http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue389/genie1.html

Announcing: A Genie in a Jam

2010-06-26T05:03:00.000-07:00

I will be making links to this series of 17 chapters in Parallel Oonahverse's Vaults
so make sure you don't miss any
they'll be coming out weekly

http://oovj.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/two-days-to-dj/

and with a wonderful piece of artwork specially created by Jerry Wright!

Gone and done it again

2010-06-21T06:20:00.000-07:00

Yes I'm in BwS Quarterly Review once more - this time 3 poems and a few articles in the challenges section. And it's Midsummer's Day - what better way to celebrate?

http://bewilderingstories.com/anthologies/377-388/377-388_antho1.html

Cuthbert's Bones

2010-06-20T05:24:00.000-07:00

Was runner-up in Pygmy Gaint's May Competition http://thepygmygiant.com/2010/06/20/competition-runner-up/

New story at Static Movement

2010-06-16T09:08:00.000-07:00

The Catalyst is up now - a sweet tale of romance - I must be coming down with something nasty ;)
http://www.staticmovement.com/thecatalyst.htm

Twin Pansies Aw!

a rose by any other name would smell just as much...

2010-06-12T07:44:00.000-07:00

It's a line from a cartoon, I forget which, maybe my sister would know. Was it Musky the muskrat? Anyway, Montagues and Capulets aside,

here is my unique perspective on what's in a name at Left Hand Waving - my first time there :) https://sites.google.com/site/lefthandwaving/oonah-v-joslin

With a name like that you should be a writer...

Spring Song

2010-06-07T05:35:00.000-07:00

Don Webb called this rondeau one of the best nature poems they'd published at BwS and my, they have some good poets there so I was well chuffed. But I do like this little poem and I hope you will too:
http://bewilderingstories.com/issue387/spring_song.html

Here's a bonus haiku:

a bee on the snap-dragon

buzzed off before I snapped

camera shy

One of my weirdest stories

2010-06-05T15:42:00.000-07:00

The Carmody Complex is up at Microhorror http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/the-carmody-complex/

Keep taking the medication!

My big box garden

2010-06-05T09:21:00.000-07:00

Last year I had big boxes built from railway sleepers erected in my garden and the neighbours wondered what they were for. This year they are fulfilling their purpose and hopefully by next year these plants will have climbed to the top.

At Bewildering Stories

2010-05-31T03:58:00.000-07:00

My fuuny take on the difficulties of writing Sci-Fi
http://bewilderingstories.com/issue386/going_nowhere.html

I blog about why I wrote it here:
http://oovj.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/trekkie/

Stranger Still and other links

2010-05-17T03:40:00.000-07:00

My story Stranger Still is up at EDF today http://www.everydayfiction.com/stranger-still-by-oonah-v-joslin/ and a very strange tale it is too.

Tree Surgeon is up at BwS and also a story from my friend John Ritchie and a poem by the wonderful John Stocks
http://bewilderingstories.com/issue384/tree_surgeon.html

http://bewilderingstories.com/issue384/hide_djinn.html

http://bewilderingstories.com/issue384/showroom_cinema.html

Lovely time in Aldeburgh Suffolk

2010-05-16T07:23:00.000-07:00

We stayed at the White Lion

and had dinner with one of my Writeword's Pals, Avis Hickman Gibb and her husband Mike.

Morpeth

2010-05-07T07:26:00.000-07:00

I was disappointed to hear that my favourite gift's shop Su Heart is going to close in June. Shop rental costs on Bridge Street has defeated them. If we get another damned charity shop I'll spit in someone's eye! As if that weren't enough, the council has gone and put up parking charges to 60p/hour but to include the hour between 5 and 6 when a lot of working people drop into Morrison's or Mark's' Well they'll most probably go t0 ASDA instead where the parking is FREE. And the new arcade? Wye aye! I shop in Laura Ashley all the time, mun! Divvint ye?

Su is going to be making her jewelry to sell on-line though so when she sets up, I'll add her to my friends. Good luck Su!

Heroes All?

2010-05-06T14:47:00.000-07:00

You decide. It's up at Micro Horror

http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/heroes-all/

What's the right question?

2010-05-05T05:05:00.000-07:00

Otherwise you can't get the right answer, can you?
http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/whats-the-right-question/

New poem

2010-05-02T02:33:00.000-07:00

Dead Magazine - drabble at Static Movement http://www.staticmovement.com/deadmagazine.htm

Locus of Control at The Pygmy Giant http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/locus-of-control/

We worship commerce it seems like we used to worship volcanos. We worship what we fear. What we really fear is losing the locus of control. What we should recognise is that we never had it to begin with.

Photobucket | virginia woolf Pictures, virginia woolf Images, virginia woolf Photos

2010-04-30T02:20:00.000-07:00

Photobucket virginia woolf Pictures, virginia woolf Images, virginia woolf Photos

Recorded Voice of Virginia Woolf

2010-04-30T02:09:00.000-07:00

But what she has to say... Thrilling stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+recorded+voice+of+virginia+woolf&aq=0

And there's a very nice photo of her and Lytton Strachey (who wrote Emminent Victorians which introduced modern biography as an art form).

He once asked Virginia to marry him and when she said yes he said "It was ghastly" :) They'd been friends since childhood...

Two new stories for you

2010-04-25T00:56:00.000-07:00

I'm rather fond of On with the Motley it's cute but it has a bit more depth than it looks. Find it The Pygmy Giant http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/on-with-the-motley/

Cider Sunrise is a satisfying revenge tale over at EDF.
http://www.everydayfiction.com/cider-sunrise-by-oonah-v-joslin/

Oonah's comments comparing two industrial poems by herself and John Stocks here: http://bewilderingstories.com/issue381/ch380resp_joslin.html

and So much to learn about haiku at Parallel Oonahverse. http://oovj.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/so-much-to-learn-about-haiku/

Responses to Stain of Light

2010-04-21T01:11:00.000-07:00

http://bewilderingstories.com/issue379/cc_stain_light.html
http://bewilderingstories.com/issue380/joslin_letter.html

At BwS this week

2010-04-12T12:21:00.000-07:00

Tapping the Salamander is about a steel works' closure http://bewilderingstories.com/issue379/tapping_salamander.html

and I am honoured by what John Stocks and Don Webb said about my poem Stain of Light
http://bewilderingstories.com/issue379/cc_stain_light.html

Thank you both so much.

EDP Anthology News Flash

2010-04-12T00:55:00.000-07:00

The Contributor's List is here http://www.everydaypoets.com/edp-anthology-news-flash

My monthly bite of horror

2010-04-08T04:20:00.000-07:00

is up here http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/the-final-cut/

The Head Gardener at 10FLASH Quarterly

2010-04-01T06:03:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter Everyone
I have a poem on BwS this Monday http://bewilderingstories.com/issue378/stain_light.html

One of the editors wrote to me specailly to say:
I just wanted to tell you how much I liked STAIN OF LIGHT. A really
beautiful poem. Good job!

Thank you Bill X
While you're there read August Evening by John Stocks and Fehmida Zakeer's story Canvas of life.

Over at Static Movement is the closest thing I'll ever get to ChickLit ;) and if you like chocolate, you'll like this. http://staticmovement.com/whatyoumakeofit.htm

There's a whole new (okay I can't resist) crop fo great stories to read over at 10FLASH Quarterly and among them is one of my favourites of mine - The Head Gardener. Whatever you're planting or harvesting...Well good luck :) http://10flash.wordpress.com/genres/10flash-fantasy-stories/the-head-gardener/

Binnacle Award

2010-03-31T04:56:00.000-07:00

As an Honoree in The 2009 Binnacle Contest

They sent this sweet little presentation box, and inside a citation, a set of all the winning entiries on cards (top right) and copies of my own poem on separate cards (btm right).

It's gorgeous!

April at EDP

2010-03-31T01:58:00.000-07:00

Read Robin Herrnfeld today and an interview with her tomorrow at EDP. Also on our ToC for April is an interview with that laureate of Limericks - lock up your daughters, Errol Nimbly - and congratulations to our editor for this month, Kathleen Cassen Mickelson on her first solo edition :) Check it all out. http://www.everydaypoets.com/

I loved John Stocks' poem so I answered the challenge

2010-03-29T06:43:00.000-07:00

and wrote about it here http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue377/ch376resp_rocket.html

EDP

2010-03-28T10:24:00.000-07:00

Duotrope have this listed about us :
This market ranks among the 25 Most Approachable Poetry Markets
This market ranks among the Most Personable Poetry Markets

Very nice :)

BwS 1st Quarterly Review

2010-03-22T03:02:00.000-07:00

I'm delighted to have had my work chosen again for the QR at Bewildering Stories. This time I'm in the Short Poetry section, the Flash Fiction section where they chose only 5/23 pieces of the published pieces and there's a link to my essay about 'Flight of Starlings'.

Cogratulations to John Stocks and Nick Allen too.

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/anthologies/366-376/366-376_antho1.html

Spring in the garden

2010-03-21T11:59:00.000-07:00

crocuses snowdrops

give back colour they borrowed

from last year's sunlight

Spring at last

2010-03-20T05:20:00.000-07:00

At around 5:30 today, the tide turns, the season tips, we welcome the Equinox. And I for one, depite this damned cold I have, am determined to be irritatingly optimistic so

HAPPY EQUINOX EVERYONE

2010-03-17T05:09:00.000-07:00

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

For suggestions for reading today - from the Vaults of Parallel Oonahverse click this link http://oovj.wordpress.com/

I'malso at 10FLASH QUARTERLY today with a guest editorial called When Worlds Collide which you can find here http://10flash.wordpress.com/publishing-news/when-worlds-collide/

Letter/Essay at BwS

2010-03-15T03:23:00.000-07:00

In Bewildering stories last week, I had a poem about starlings. This week, I have an essay set around the questions that arose from that poem. This makes me look very intellectual indeed and I like that ;)

Also in this wee'k issue, my good friends, Nick Allen's - The Other Way Round and John Stocks' - R is for Rocket...

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue376/ch375resp_starlings.html

I'm also here with a story - First Contact http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html

BwS

2010-03-08T03:17:00.000-08:00

John Grey, John Stocks, Sarah Ann Watts and ME - all together in one Issue - what's not to like?
Bewildering Stories index to issue 375
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue375/index.html

Penumbra

2010-03-05T15:54:00.000-08:00

New story here: http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/penumbra/

Haiku - Issa is so 'cool'

2010-03-05T06:52:00.000-08:00

cooling off standing
cooling lying down...
well, it's cool!

-Issa, 1816

http://cat.xula.edu/issa/

The Large Hadron Collider

2010-03-04T08:28:00.000-08:00

If you would like to read another of my unpublished works The Large Hadron Collider is now here: http://oovj.wordpress.com/category/oonahs-world-of-fiction/

The truth is out there!

Spring is in the air

2010-03-03T13:38:00.000-08:00

Or so it would seem from the behavoiur of the swans. The frozen lake didn't seem to cool their ardour ;)

To Love is to Burn

2010-03-02T07:49:00.000-08:00

New story up at Static Movement but also look for contributions from my good friends Jennifer and... Jennifer :)

http://www.staticmovement.com/loveistoburn.htm

St David's Day

2010-02-28T09:27:00.001-08:00

Welsh cakes are traditional:

8oz SR Flour

4oz butter

2oz sugar

1tsp mixed spice

1 egg

a little milk

1-2ozs sultanas mixed in before cutting...

Make as you would scones but cut in 1/4 inch thick rounds. These are baked on a dry griddle or non-stick pan over a low heat. Each side takes 5 minutes roughly - don't ry to rush it - do preheat the griddle and don't turn over too soon. If you turn the heat up they'll burn. Sprinkle with sugar when done. Makes about 14.

An over-view of my work

2010-02-27T12:43:00.000-08:00

You might like to look at some of the stuff you missed first time round and you can find it all by searching here
http://oovj.wordpress.com/my-published-work/

Experimental Oonahverse

2010-02-26T02:59:00.000-08:00

I have launched a site to publish some of the good old 'stuff' that's - good but rather old and just sitting around going slowly out of date.

So if you'd like to read what no one has read before :)
Please drift over to my Word Press Blog and take a look at the latest. I'll try to upload at the rate of one a week.

http://oovj.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/d-a-r-t-s/

If you love Haiku

2010-02-26T01:56:00.000-08:00

Here is a website you might enjoy. If you subscribe (it's free!) a haiku by Issa pops into your inbox every morning! http://cat.xula.edu/issa/

Haiku Afternoon

2010-02-21T09:55:00.000-08:00

I just spent a wonderfully enriching afternoon with the Newcastle Haiku Society, discussing the works of masters like Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki - and Peter Mortimer :) who is never going to forgive me - punctuation-wise and I don't blame him... Nice hat, Peter :)

Thanks to Chris for inviting me along. Morden Tower is also a wonderful venu. What a privilege.

The only Haiku I ever wrote is in The Shine Journal here: http://www.theshinejournal.com/joslinoonahv.htm

so Peter can get his own back.

Buy The Shine Anthology

2010-02-19T12:29:00.000-08:00

Yes of course I'm in it but so are some of my bestest pals :) Avis, Mary...
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-shine-journal-anthology-volume-one/8344159

Valentine's Day has a certain chemistry about it

2010-02-13T15:41:00.000-08:00

Well it does here...
http://www.staticmovement.com/chemistrylesson.htm

2010 Anthology The Best of Every Day Fiction

2010-02-12T12:11:00.000-08:00

http://www.everydayfiction.com/features/print-books/the-best-of-every-day-fiction-two-anthology/

I have a story in there, K C Ball has 4! but really it's just such a good read. Do buy a copy. Also a good gift idea!

Crunch Time

2010-02-08T12:39:00.000-08:00

Have you ever wondered how it all came about? Why? Who invented weekends? This should give you the answers ;)
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue371/crunch_time.html

Meat the Family

2010-02-07T10:26:00.000-08:00

Yesterday tweetthemeat today meat the family over at Micro Horror. Valentines is next week but don't be deceived by appearances
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/meat-the-family/

150 hits

2010-02-06T16:05:00.000-08:00

http://www.thelinnetswings.net/?stn=96409&pageno=1

this one is doing well :)

tweetthemeat

2010-02-06T02:44:00.000-08:00

I like writing really short things but writing to a theme in only 140 characters including spaces is SHORT and let me tell you difficult! So I'm proud of this medieval themed story. It took longer to tell you about it than the story is...

http://tweetthemeat.blogspot.com/

Two new poems at The Shine

2010-02-01T00:32:00.000-08:00

Natural Enemy and The Coldest Heart are up in the February Issue. I'm particualrly fond of The Coldest Heart

http://www.theshinejournal.com/joslinoms.htm

Winter's Last Breath

2010-01-31T08:55:00.000-08:00

I don't think we've seen the last of it yet and Tuesday is Groundhog Day better known as Candlemass - one of the Quarter Days of the old ecclesiastical calendar. It's kind of opposite Halloween - as far away from the shortest day as the equinox. So I thought you'd like to go over to Boston Literary Magazine's Winter edition and reread this poem which seems appropriate.

http://www.bostonliterarymagazine.com/winter09poetry.html#winter09breath.html

The Linnet's Wings

2010-01-25T14:30:00.000-08:00

I love this magazine and I've been in it before so do look in the achives but on this occasion my contribution is a poem.

In addition some of my friends are there too, Bill West, Jennifer Stakes, Casey Quinn, Rumjhum Biswas Check it out

http://www.thelinnetswings.net/?stn=96409&pageno=1