Category: Blog

Our first year has been a long, dark year, but we published a lot of stories — 45 so far.  We even got a call-out from a story in Daily Science Fiction:  the story notes for The Empty Empire explain that it was inspired by Deep Sky Anchor, and it sent a few visitors our way.  (Welcome!  We loved getting your comments!)

In this dark December, we could all use a little brightness and cheer, so our present to you is a classic Christmas ghost story about that lovable, curmudgeonly, feline Scrooge — Shreddy and the Christmas Ghost. Continue reading “Merry Christmas from a Grumpy Cat”

Time for the Christmas Eve broccoli.

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There’s a tooth under my nine-year-old’s pillow, and the stockings are hung over the fireplace. Santa and the tooth fairy may cross paths.

My plan to hibernate through the next few months seems to have been thwarted by my failure to be a bear.‬

Continue reading “Hibernations and Rivalries, Both Thwarted”

My fish is super happy about the power outage — his tank has been relocated across town, and he’s all excited about the new surroundings.‬

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I thought I had no words in me, but I managed to write an 800 word passage. Continue reading “The World and Time, Frozen”

Sometimes I think about whether I would have gone by my initials — M.E. Lowd — if I’d understood 13 years ago just how deep the sexism is.‬

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‪Every. Time. The city gets ice, we lose power. Trim back the goddamned trees during the summer, Eugene.‬

The ice demons are rampaging.‬

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Maybe if I hold really still the ice demons won’t notice me, and the fire sprites will continue to warm my house.‬ Continue reading “Ice and Fire”

The three-year-old has been singing “Everything is Awesome” from the LEGO movie all day.. but the way he pronounces it sounds more like “Everything is AWFUL!”

The three-year-old, proudly displaying his slap-wrap ruler/bracelet: “This can measure! I’m a measure-guy!”‬

Time for a new religion — the Church of the Holy Unborn believes abortion is the highest sacrament & only the mother can tell if her baby has been called for it

Excellent. In addition to ants sneaking through the window, a spider set up camp under the sink to catch them. A whole ecosystem. Yay.‬

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The lesson my nine-year-old took from The Three Little Pigs: “Boy, I’m glad we don’t have to build our own houses. That would be a lot of work.”

Secondary lesson: “Never trust walking or talking bushes.”