Dear Blog Friends, As practice before I post my novel, I decided to post some of my short stories as singles. Like a vinyl single, mine are going to have an A side and a B side. The A side of this is “Emily’s Fifth Birthday” a very literary science fiction short story I wrote …
May 2011 archive
May 13
Cobalt Stamp Plate 6
The photo on this didnt’ turn out as well as I had hoped, but it was either take a crappy photo or not get it photographed at all, because I’m using my table for another project. This plate is actually twice as large as the others, because I used a larger meat tray.
May 11
Cobalt Stamp Plate 5
After I stamped the image, the second step was to cut them out and lay them gently into styrofoam meat trays. I pushed the clay into the corner to get a neat shape, and then trimmed the edges. I’ve done a lot of these. It’s not as easy as it looks. The less you touch …
May 11
Seeing Things, Part 5: Doing My Part
Dear Blog Friends, I have witches in my urban fantasy. Of course, lots of people have witches in their fantasy, but the thing is, I have real witches. I’m not a witch myself, but I have friends who are witches, and if I were ever to join a religion, it would likely be Paganism because …