In Smokelong Quarterly

I sent a 50 word definition and guess what?

http://smokelong.com/features/2008/05/definitive-flash.html

Dear Oonah V Joslin:Thank you for your submission of "Definition - Flash" to SmokeLong Quarterly. We have added it to "The Definitive Flash" article. We so appreciate your input and insight, Oonah.Best,Randall BrownSmokeLong Quarterly

Let me just read that again :)
and again :)
and again :)
:)

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.