New story at Static Movement

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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