Losing patience here....

Well, between the idiocy at Facebook--both their aggressive pursuit of clicks and their changing the frames per second of the latest upgrade, thus triggering migraines in many of us--I have been contemplating social media, and where to take a stand.

Also, I am still healing, but the pandemic and shipping problems have complicated my life in too many ways. I have been waiting almost a month for a shipment from New Zealand. It's something that may allow me to level up to the next health plateau. But who knows how fast it will get here. I would have guessed two weeks at the fastest before shipping backlog and USPS re-org.

Right now I am thinking about moving my longer posts over here (probably buying in, as I once did with Live Journal) and just posting links at FB and Twitter. Cat memes and such will remain over there, but writing, politics, and all-over-the-map stuff may move here. Stuff that was Friend post or special post at FB will be Frie4nd post here, too, so you can join--it's free for a basic journal. It's easier right now than creating a new web site, frankly. Too many balls are in play. I don't want to drop any of them.

I have the uncomfortable feeling I will need to leave here. Between the AQ and the ancient sea bed we float upon, plus vortex weather upping its game (used to be 3 years out of 10. It's been the last three years....)it is not looking like a good place for me to contemplate early retirement. The question is, where is my Venn diagram so I can spend the most time in good air/humidity, and go out to visit folks? I don't know. And the way things are in Texas right now, I don't know that returning to Austin is an option.

But--good news! My 7500+ word ghost story is now out from Book View Cafe. Murmurs in the Dark. Both ebook and print. I'll post some info on it in a bit here.

May you all be doing well. Remember--just functioning right now is a triumph!

Now Available--MURMURS IN THE DARK, a ghost story anthology edited by Marissa Doyle & Shannon Page

They are tales of loss, love, and laughter--of things you are positive you didn't see. But then again, perhaps you did. . . . In my case, I was writing about places where people learned to temporarily share with a ghost. Turned out I was also writing about a woman who tried to help the ghosts as well.

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Book View Cafe presents thirteen (of course) brand new (mostly) tales of ghosts, hauntings, and things that might or might not go bump in the night--tales that will inspire an involuntary glance over the shoulder, an unexpected shiver, or an uneasy chuckle.

Open this book at your own risk...of a spooky good read.

Stories by Alma Alexander - Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - Chaz Brenchley - Marie Brennan - Brenda W. Clough - Marissa Doyle - Katharine Eliska Kimbriel - Shannon Page - Paul Piper - Steven Popkes - Dave Smeds - Jennifer Stevenson - Jill Zeller

Read a sample online!

On "Borrowed Places," my latest work--a novelette.

My commentary--indirectly, like all good things ghostly--on writing "Borrowed Places."

"Do you believe that a human being can run an English mile in about four minutes?  If you believe the record is true--why do you believe it? How good are you at accepting that other people can do something you can't?

"When someone hears something you don't--like a camera flash recharging? Do you doubt them? If not--would you doubt them if they told you a kitchen light ballast was buzzing, driving them nuts?

"If someone told you that an empty house felt "occupied" . . . do you immediately dismiss it? Wish you believed it? Wonder what it is they sense?

"If. If. If.

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