The Muddy Unicorn

by Mary E. Lowd

A Deep Sky Anchor Original

“Alivia thought she would have liked being a frog.  They spent a lot more time in the water than she did.”

The sky was a the kind of empty blue that foretells a sunny, uneventful day, as untouched by actual weather as a day can be.  Alivia couldn’t stand it.  She wanted to frolic in mud puddles, dancing under the droplets of a gusting storm.  She wanted to prance and twirl on her cloven hooves, shake raindrops from her snowy mane like a waterfall, and spear the thorn-sharp tip of her horn into as many individual drops of water as she could.  She wanted to play rainy day games.

Alivia was a unicorn who loved the rain. Continue reading “The Muddy Unicorn”

Poems Instead of Publishers

I’ve written 151 poems in the month and a half since my publisher dropped me.

I finally got all the poems I’ve been writing and scattering to the winds of social media properly backed up and archived on my Deep Sky Anchor site. So, next up is an editing pass on my book Voyage of the Wanderlust, so it can go up for pre-order. Then illustrating another book!