An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
My kid was refusing to write a post for their English class about what they like to read. So, I wrote something for them:
"I lie= to read CLOWN books. Only book s with lowsns. It's like being a furry. But for clowns Is good post now"
Some of my best work, I think.
by Mary E. Lowd
A Deep Sky Anchor Original, September 2022
The lion cub hid among the rushes and narcissus flowers at the edge of the lake and watched her father, King of the Jungle, meet and talk with the shining white unicorn who presided over the deep dark woods adjacent to the lions’ sunny savannah home.
Sarah thought the unicorn’s forest looked more like a jungle than their savannah did, and she wanted to tell the unicorn that… but she’d promised her father to hide quietly during his meeting. He only brought one cub with him at a time to these meetings, and given her plethora of sisters, brothers, half-siblings, and cousins, Sarah’s turn to accompany her father didn’t turn up very often. She wanted to prove she could be a good little cub, so she stayed quiet as a mouse. Continue reading “Sarah Flowermane and the Unicorn”
Each story is a chance to reach and win over new readers. The more stories you write and release, the more chances you have at your work being found.
But even if a story isn’t found right away, if you keep it available, it still has a chance of being found later and being loved.
Just reading Animorphs #8, thinking about how Ax knows the word “globules” but not “chocolate” and how beloved these books are and how ridiculous it was for my writing group to give me so much trouble for doing similar things in my Shreddy stories.
Unpopular opinion (& spoiler?): the end of How I Met Your Mother is absolutely fantastic. It’s heavily foreshadowed and a really beautiful, valuable lesson — Ted can both deeply treasure his time with the mother and still seek love again, without minimizing either relationship. Continue reading “How I Met Your Mother is Robin’s Story”
Apparently my fifteen-year-old’s group of friends is all going to Rose City Comic Con tomorrow, and the way my kid perked up when I said we could maybe go too definitely made it seem worth doing.
So, I guess I’ll be at comic con tomorrow! Continue reading “Suddenly Rose City Comic Con”
I’ve been re-watching Parks & Rec with my kids, and I always loved Leslie Knope’s journey, but it’s hitting me even harder this time, now that I’m further along mine.
The way she achieves her dream, loses her dream, readjusts, and just keeps struggling… It’s everything. Continue reading “The Power of Leslie Knope’s Journey”
I just finished writing a story about alittle lion with a mane of flowers, and I’m thinking of publishing it to Deep Sky Anchor
on Monday. It already has art from Midjourney, and my mom, who’s good enough to be a professional copy-editor, will probably look it over tomorrow. Continue reading “Taking Back the Power of Production, One Story at a Time”
I can tell the air is bad today just from the color of the light leaking in around the edges of the closed blinds in my room.
Everything is yellowed like life has become an old newspaper.
Sometimes as I’m scrolling twitter, wondering why exactly I’m doing that, I remember my parents reading the newspaper when I was a kid and think about how scrolling twitter is just the modern version.
I’m just not sure if that makes me feel better or worse about it.