I have been very ambivalent about doing some end-of-year round-ups this year, because overall 2021 was a lot harder than 2020 and there’s so many more things I didn’t do than I did that surveying the ones I did do doesn’t make me happy it just makes me feel guilty.
So this is not really a survey of what I wrote, fiction and poetry wise, in 2021, because that is a sad and depressing list; instead, it is a survey of what I published, which makes me a bit happier.
It was mostly a poetry year: I had four poems in Dreich‘s love-themed special issue in February, including one I wrote for G, “(my) Love is (not) Patient”, one of my favorite poems I’ve ever written. Unfortunately, one of them — a haiku — was misprinted (missing the final line), which was disappointing, but a corrected version was printed in a haiku-themed issue a few months later.
Another poem, “Artio Brings a Blessing,” was published in Ink Drinkers Poetry, in their folklore themed issue.
Over on twitter, a friend shared a picture of a bird-shaped votive vessel, with the caption, “explain to me, in verse, why god is like a duck”. So I did, in two different forms. The short form is the more successful, I think; but the long form perhaps makes more sense.
And my only short story, Two, was published in A Quiet Afternoon 2, published by Grace & Victory Press. This is one of my favorite stories, and one that almost made the cut so many times. I’m really happy that it has finally found a home, and someday I will get around to writing the “about this story” blog post. It’s…complicated in its inspiration, and I haven’t yet figured out how to put it into words. But someday.
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