April Rations

The title says it all about this blog spot entry for EDF http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/sometimes-life-gives-you-a-kick-up-the-backside/#comments

Spring Uplift is at BwS this week and a response to the questions Don posed about Not His Last Duchess - just to show I occasionally think about what I write. ;)
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue331/springs_uplift.html
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue331/ch330resp_duchess.html

The Pygmy Giant has just published an etheree inspired by my niece, Seren. It's called
Hide 'n- http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/ The Wonderful World of Woolworth
will also be appearing there soon. Watch this space, as they say...
http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/the-wonderful-world-of-woolworths/

I say rations because I have not been submitting much and so this month's offerings are small but we begin with Micro Horror and my flash Patterns for Life
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/patterns-for-life/
I hated that wallpaper with the roses on... I hate wallpaper in general. My walls are plain. In any pattern there are always faces...

And in Static Movement, Closet Key. Sometimes a single event sparks the crisis and there's no going back...
http://staticmovement.com/closetkey.htm
This was one I revised and revised!

In case you missed it, this came at the vwery end of March: Brand New is my first piece in Clockwise Cat http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2009/02/brand-new-by-oonah-v-joslin.html There will be another at a future date.

and Not His Last Duchesss made it into the BwS Quarterly Review - my 6th in a row! I assure you that is no mean feat. The editors there runa tight ship and I am so honoured to have been chosen so many times.
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue330/last_duchess.html

Micro Horror Delivers

You hear of sites that offer prizes, and sometimes the prize doesn't materialise. I have had two unique prizes from Micro Horror, each of which was accompanied by a hand written letter from Black Nate himself!

They are treasures beyond the dreams of avarice for me, who never thought to be published at all and never thought I'd write h o r r o r :)

March

Brand New is my first piece in Clockwise Cat
http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2009/02/brand-new-by-oonah-v-joslin.html

FOCUS at EDF http://www.everydayfiction.com/focus-by-oonah-v-joslin/ and I have to say, this is perhaps my favourite story of mine :) Go on - take a break ;)

Not His Last Duchess if you like people watching,and Robert Browning, you'll like this:
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue330/last_duchess.html

Full Flavour at Bewildering Stories, is not just a poem - it gives you a useful address to visit in Barcelona - believe me, you've never tasted chocolate :) http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue329/full_flavour.html

3 poems in The Ranfurly Review
http://www.ranfurly-review.co.uk/issues/The_Ranfurly_Review_Issue_6.pdf
Touching a Legend
Spring Chant
Exploring Parts of the Impossible

Two stories in Doorknobs&Bodypaint Issue 53
No Serenade
The Sweet Smell of
http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DOORBODY2.html
my friend John Ritchie has two there as well this months :)

Post Post Mortem at Micro Horror this month reaches, I think, my upper limit on the gory story. But you never know ;) http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/category/author/oonah-v-joslin/

Random Harvest? http://www.bostonliterarymagazine.com/fall08drabble.html#fall08universal.html

EDF will be publishing Focus later this month - I'll post the url when it's up, and there should be several others to come so keep coming back, please.

Also don't forget to check out Every Day Poets. We have some great poems over there this month - one a day - every day - a poetic tonic you can't afford to miss.

Leonard Cohen at MEN Arena

I was delighted to find I'd been quoted as a fan review on this site. My praise was barely enough but I am pleased it was communicated to a wider audience. Thank you.

http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/tourrevf12.html

Special Links

My Technopolymorph picture is done. This is the prize for 2008. I know this sounds crazy but it'll fit lovely in my living room. You can see it at http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/microhorror/news-presenting-the-2008-contest-illustrations/#comment-5232

Also WriteWords pal NickAllen and I have a story each there just now. Mine is called A Whisper in the Dark his is Nightshift right beside one another. http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/nick-allen/nightshift/

And maybe you'd like to pop over and read the first installment Nick Ozment's book at http://knighterrors.blogspot.com/ It's very entertaining :)

Also Nik Perring's story An Unhappy Man has been nominated for the month's best at Six Sentences. If you like it he'd really appreciate your votes. Obviously! Here's the link: http://sixofthemonthjan09.blogspot.com/

Are all my friends called Nick? Well, better the devil you know... ;)

February's Links

I play this...game in the wee dark days before Christmas that as the light fades it's really February and five o'clock. It helps somehow to foreshadow the lengthening days. Speaking of shadows, it's Groundhog Day and my cat saw her shadow - on the snow.

Links? Here's the first one:
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue323/cc_joslin.html
I'll just say it's not a story. It's not a poem. And if you are in academic mood, go read it.
and again BwS
The Writing Room http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue324/writing_room.html

EDF Broadens the Mind http://www.everydayfiction.com/broadens-the-mind-by-oonah-v-joslin/ No, that's the name of the story :)

Whisper in the Dark is up at Micro Horror http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/whisper-in-the-dark/

Rainbow Pie and Star Chips anyone? At Short Fiction U.K.
http://www.short-fiction.co.uk/newstories/show_story.php?story_id=2100
Because sometimes you have to feed the imagination.

Explanation is up. I always liked this one. http://staticmovement.com/explination.htm

3 poems in Shine

Catching the Wind is a favoutite of mine. Haiku Housewife is fun. Intelligence is surreal but funny. http://www.theshinejournal.com/joslinmrsoonah.htm

Twisted Tongue 12 is out at last with my story On Top of the World
You’ll be pleased to know that Twisted Tongue Magazine issue 12 is now available, with another fabulous cover from the talented Steve Upham. Inside we have two interviews for you with Matt Browne and Dr Kim Paffenroth; an article by Alexander James, Nine Weeks to Write it, Nine Years to Right it; several extracts to entice you; thanks to all of our wonderful contributors: Karen Cole Peralta, Aliya Whiteley, Harry Hughes, Bill Schweizer, Jeff Gardiner, John Morgan,Gary Hewitt, Paul Johnson, Janey Brewer, Brian Wright, Jessica Lynne Gardner, Robert Knox, Aaron A Polson, Theodore Carter, S H Hughes, K S Nixon, Tina Koenig, Jade Eckert, Ginny Swart, C M Clifton, Oonah V Joslin,Pg 30 :) Jonathan Pinnock, David Towsey, Tonya L Lambert, John Morgan, Alexander Salas, Jim Steel,Glen Batchelor, Ben Eubanks, Mel Fawcett, Jeff Carter, Lynette Mejia, Rebecca, Colin Campbell, Brian Rosenberger, Dr Charles Frederickson, Greg Schwartz, Ramona Thompson, Jonathan Hayes, Peter Egypt, Sherie Davis, P S Gifford, Len Hecht, Luigi Monteferrante, R Jay Slais, Caroline Barnard-Smith and C J Carter Stephenson. You will also find details on how to win FREE books; this issue is over 95,000 words—larger than your standard novel.
You can download issue 12 as a PDF version for FREE or buy a printed edition from: http://www.lulu.com/content/5948171

Happy New Year & Links

I don't think there are many this month as I have been so busy but yesterdays can be included:
Picture of Innocence is based on a real young arrogant Pisseur somewhere in the Lacaune area in 1976. And I was innocent and embarrassed and I never smoked that cigarette - it was my first. I should have made it my last. I gave up 10 years ago.
http://www.everydayfiction.com/picture-of-innocence-by-oonah-v-joslin/
Open and Closed is at Every Day Fiction this month. A little Sci-Fi piece with a twist.
http://www.everydayfiction.com/open-and-closed-by-oonah-v-joslin/#comments
The Frost Lady is at MicroHorror now. http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/the-frost-lady/
On Top of the World at Twisted Tongue http://www.twistedtongue.co.uk/index.htm
Survival of the Slowest at Short Humour :) http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/survivaloftheslowest.htm
The Gospel According to http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/thegospelaccordingto.htm who said it's not the real thing? Oh, Unbelievers! ;)

That anthology, 'People of Few Words', has now been published via Lulu.com, and a paperback copy can be obtained at:
http://www.lulu.com/content/3174559
I have a story in that Anthology so please - buy it!