Grieve Leave recently published my essay about how the Swedish Satanic metal band Ghost helped me grieve my father’s death. Plus, I was nominated for Best of the Net!

Recently The Conversation Project asked me to write a blog post about grief for them. And today that blog post is out in the world: “Laughing in the Face of Death: Joy as Coping Mechanism.”

I went on a little rant about one of my biggest corporate writing pet peeves, and today Slate was good enough to publish it: “We’re Going to Be Using ‘We’ a Little Less.”

Hope you’re enjoying my little Devil stories, because Paranoid Tree was kind enough to publish another: “I Saw Goody Proctor Help the Devil Rotate a PDF.”

Today Insider was kind enough to publish another article (a listicle, in fact) that I wrote based on my dead parents website: “My parents are dead. Here are the 5 most important things I’ve learned as executor.”

In October of last year, the devil paid me a visit—I hear he does that. I started writing lots of little micros, all featuring the Prince of Darkness in various forms. I’m honored that HAD published two of them this week.

Ever since I created My Parents Are Dead: What Now?, I’ve been writing more about the loss of my parents and how difficult it is to untangle their estate. I’m honored that Salon featured a personal essay of mine today: “My parents are dead—can I afford avocado toast now?”

When my dad died in March, I became executor and successor trustee for his estate. I had lots of questions, and few answers. So I made a website about it: https://www.deadparentswhatnow.com

Because I’m usually working on longer projects, it’s rare for me to publish new stories in general. Two in one week is bananas. Enormously grateful to Necessary Fiction for sharing “Hell of a Game,” and to Okay Donkey for giving a home to “Ka, Ba, and Akh.”

My first publication of 2022 is here! I can’t thank Juked Magazine enough for sharing my story “Sanctuary.”

I am THRILLED to see my story “Black Mass at Denny’s” in the latest issue of No Contact. I can’t get over the artwork they made for it. Incredible.

The story of how my little gunk poem came into the world. Yeah, I published a poem. I’m multifaceted.

Every summer, Kathy Fish holds a reunion for writers who’ve taken her Fast Flash workshop in the past; for three days in June she posts a prompt each morning, and the rest of us have at it, cheering on each other’s work as we go. My new personals ad for a deity, “SEEKING A NEW GOD FOR AFTER COVID (AND BEYOND),” was born from this year’s Imperative Writing prompt. The Daily Drunk was kind enough to give it a home.

Here’s a fun fact about my writing: I often use lines from Mina Loy poems as prompts. My Paper Darts story “Radioactive Teeth” is an example of this; it was inspired by Loy’s poem “Gertrude Stein.” Another example is my story that trampset was kind enough to publish today: “The Princess Diana Experience.”

So pleased that Trash Magazine published my series of linked micros “True Love Travels on a Gravel Road” today! If you like Elvis Presley, marital bliss, and cars with weird names, this one’s for you. To celebrate, here are three facts about these pieces.

I do miss writing in coffee shops, though—which is why, when Atlas and Alice put out a call for micros for their special GLOBAL PANDEMIC x THE THING I TOOK FOR GRANTED issue, I knew exactly what to write about. They were kind enough to publish my first-ever creative nonfiction piece “I don’t miss coffee, but” earlier this week.