A Fashion Statement

"Trap" has been looking for a home for some time. I wrote it in response to a challenge in my writer's forum and everybody thought it was funny but it wasn't getting any response from editors. I find 'funny' difficult to place but never mind...Brian Huggett thought it was 'great fun!' and gave it a home in Short Humour. So thank you Brian :)

I would like to point out that no snails were harmed in the writing of this piece.

http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/trap.htm

Late in May

Marrying Maud was sewn together from my sister's nightmares. She insisted the woman was called Maud. I like it. It's gothically gruesome and those ducks!! Makes you glad of your own nightmares. I just hope I did her's justice.

http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/marrying-maud/

EDF and Bewlidering Stories 2nd & 3rd May 08

The Heron is on EDF today. This was a flash challenge piece for August '07. Jordan and Camille said "This author has really found her voice." - lovely compliment. Reading it again now that was probably true to some extent. A lot of my work does sound like this piece but I seem to be fairly eclectic and sometimes I even surprise myself. I like this one.

I was delighted to find that other people did too and I have put one of the very special comments I received below.

But I love the next one! Exposure started off with the title Stealer of Souls and Xselian, the name means exhalation, is a nasty piece of work although I do not think of him as Satan...just as one of Satan's co-workers. Anyone in fact, be they boss, politician...who follows that Game Theory ethos where people are expendable and everything is quantifiable.

Have you ever been called a 'sticking plaster'? I have. By a boss. I told 'em where to stick it.

This one is for all you human beings out there. The people who aren't for sale.


http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-heron-by-oonah-v-joslin/
Comment from EDF: When I read words that make poetic imagery become music, I know there is a God. Thank you, Ms. Joslin, for a moment of transcendence. Lynn Hesse
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue288/exposure.html

May in Static Movement

Rex is up in Static Movement today.

This one should please all doggy lovers. The dedication is to my sister's dog - a faithful and sweet natured friend, who left us last month. But in writng Rex, I was thinking of all the many canine friends that have enriched my life since childhood and still do today. Chris Batholomew, the editor, kindly asked John Stanton to contribute a piece of artwork to go along with the story and I was delighted with it - thank you John.

If this brings a tear to your eye, I make no apology, it brought a tear to mine too...

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

My good friend Avis also has a flash in the May edition and Colin Galbraith, editor of the Ranfurly Review, wrote a fascinating graveyard tale - well worth reading.

As ever Static Movement has a great mix of reading for you to enjoy.

About my work this April

Online this month was a mixture of poetry, flash and memoir. It represents a fair cross section of what I write and I hope you will enjoy reading them.

Lit Bits – Playa Paradiso - a poignant look at the costa geriatrica
http://www.litbits.ca/

The Linnet’s Wings – The Stuff of Life and Champ - creation to comfort food.
http://www.thelinnetswings.net/?stn=9015&mpageno=2&pageno=16
http://www.thelinnetswings.net/?stn=9015&mpageno=5&pageno=20

The Pygmy Giant – Devil Island Discs - the devil gets all the best tunes
http://thepygmygiant.blogspot.com/

Back Hand Stories - Retreat - a Zen look at life and death
http://www.backhandstories.com/fiction/retreat-by-oonah-v-joslin/

Micro Horror - www - nuff said!
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/www/

Bewildering Stories – The Mission and Blast - Dona Nobis Pacem
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue284/mission.html
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue285/blast.html

Static Movement - Links - just for laughs
http://www.staticmovement.com/joslin.htm

Every Day Fiction – The Wisdom of Alcuin - a little alchemy of my own :)
http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-wisdom-of-alcuin-by-oonah-v-joslin/

Twisted Tongue - tarnished surface

I have two pithy poems here - not Shine material, definitely, and both have gone through years of editing because they were hard to write.

Matricide (issue 8) http://www.twistedtongue.co.uk/
Image In (9) http://www.twistedtongue.co.uk/ and my name is on the cover! :) That was great.

Available on line in pdf format.

Static Movement

These are some of my favourites. Static Movement is a consistently good read every month. Chris Bartholomew is another very encouraging editor and I like to send stuff there.

'Beyond Belief' is a poem I wrote maybe twenty years ago but it had been lying around in a notebook. At last it found a home. These others are all flashes and most were written for the challenges in my writewords forum.

The Dispensary
On Angel’s Wings
The Warmth at the Heart of Winter
Faery Gold (written especially for the March edition so I'm glad it got in)
Links
Rex (is up in May - for all dog lovers)

One of my sisters phoned to say that On Angel's Wings was beautiful and that all the family loved it. Do you know, that pleased me as much as winning another trophy! I think Rex might just rival it...we'll see.
http://www.staticmovement.com/Wings.htm

I hope you like it too.