Posted in LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, tagged "Christmas Eve at the Petite Bouchette", Christmas, fiction, LaShawn M. Wanak, literary short stories, Short Stories, short story, Writing on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And another story is up!
“Christmas Eve at the Petite Bouchette” is my first literary story to be published. I got the idea for it when on our way to a relative’s house for Thanksgiving a couple of years ago, we drove by an adult bookstore that had its “OPEN” sign lit up. I wondered, “who [...]
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Posted in LaShawn's Work, Weeping of the Willows, Writing, tagged editing, fantasy, fiction, novel, revising, work, Writing on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
My desk is clean. The whole house is clean. The boy is currently watching Diego. I got some free time on my hands. I could work on a new blog post (all right, I’m writing it now, yes. I know that. But there’s a reason for all this. Bear with me, okay?). But I could [...]
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Posted in Fantasy Writings, Genre: Fantasy, LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, Writing, tagged Writing, Short Stories, LaShawn M. Wanak, fantasy, short story, fiction, Ideomancer, fairies, African-American fantasy, black fantasy, "Crowntree" on March 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
And yet another story of mine is up to read! Yippee! And it’s at Ideomancer, of all places!
This one has a special place in my heart. It’s based off an actual tree and stone ring I saw in someone’s backyard. Seeing the tree took me back to the days of when I was a kid, [...]
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Posted in LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, Writing, tagged Amarantine, dark, Enya, fantasy, fiction, flash, flash fiction, horror, LaShawn M. Wanak, Short Stories, short story, Tales from the Moonlight Path, Writing on February 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
And now a lighter bit of news…or darker, as the case may be.
I got another short story published…more of a flash really. You can read it at the online mag Tales from the Moonlight Path.
I was actually surprised that this one got published, because
1) it was the first market on the list I had researched. [...]
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Posted in Fantasy Writings, Genre: Fantasy, LaShawn's Work, Prayer, Short Stories, Women's Stuff, Writing, tagged "Daughters of Sarah", angels, Christian, LaShawn M. Wanak, short story, speculative fiction, Writing on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yeehaw! A new story!
I’m proud of this one because this was the first short story I worked on when I started writing again after Daniel was born. Actually, ’short’ is pretty subjective. This one’s a bit on the long side.
I got the idea for this story back when I was at Roosevelt University. One of [...]
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So the reason why I haven’t been able to go to the Midwest Literary Festival was that our family spent a week up in Cedarville, MI at the Intervarsity Cedar Camp there. Naturally, this meant that once we got back home, we had a huge pile of mail waiting for us. And the first thing [...]
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YEEEEEHAAWWWW! It’s out!
The latest issue of Kaleidotrope is out, and it’s got my story “Click” in it! I haven’t gotten it in the mail yet, but I should soon.
I had lots of fun writing “Click”. I love stories that screw with the reader’s mind. I had no idea this piece will turn into a commentary [...]
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It’s been quiet at the Cafe. Real quiet. It’s not that anything’s happening. On the contrary…there’s a lot.
I’ve been spending most of my time working on an article that I want to get out by the end of this week. It’s taken up quite a bit of time, but it’s something I’ve been wanting to [...]
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Birthday CD #1: Testimony: Vol. 1, Life and Relationship by India.Arie
From “Private Party”
“I’m havin’ a private party/Learning how to love me/Celebrating the woman I’ve become, yeah…”
On Friday, I didn’t feel any older. Maybe it’s because I’ve been thinking that I was 36 already that when my birthday actually came, it was all moot. I think [...]
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Posted in LaShawn's Work on February 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Hey, hey! I got an essay published by Absolute Write, an online resource for writers. I’m pretty stoked about it because from start to finish, it took about a week. I carefully researched the best place to send it to, and Absolute Write was at the top of the list. Nothing like getting published to make [...]
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