Well, this has been a long time coming. It’s been over a year but I finally got another piece published. My latest is a flash piece called A Consultation and it’s in the latest issue of Ink in Thirds. I can’t tell you how happy I am to see this come to light. The last years have been the most difficult creative period of my life. And as any creative can tell you, a creative not creating is miserable.

The ideas and words used to flow so fast I could never keep up. Then they slowed, then they dried up completely. I’ve had pieces published the last few years, but they were all rewrites, nothing truly new, until this piece. It’s only 245 words but it’s a start. It’s like I have to rebuild everything after getting so sick, not just my body. My job feels like my first job, this feels like my first publication. Only when I really did all those things for the first time I had a lot more support. Since then most of them have died to wandered on. There is little to no inspiration in my life but I’m not dead yet so there’s always hope of reigniting that fire. May it come soon, and may it burn bright and long.

I’m a screw up, wasting so many of the opportunities my parents worked so hard to give me, but it always felt okay as long as I could write a decent story, if only for myself. Publication is secondary. I’d rather be able to write many stories that pleased myself than meaningless ones that got published. There were many times an open third floor window seemed inviting, but I’m hoping now it’s just to enjoy the view. Thanks to anyone who ever genuinely took an interest in my writing – to the rest, don’t bother pretending, it doesn’t suit you.