Amy

Writer, educator, and podcaster living in WNY. Check out my spooky stuff podcast The Wandering Soul Podcast. I'll be posting stories and poems. Give me a read!! xoxo

Launched 5 months ago

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Junior Samples, the porch cat, suffers these indignities every time he come to the drive thru window.

Having a down day. Miss Fiona is doing her best to be extra supportive.

It happened. I got my first rejection letter for a query I sent—not for the novel, but for a children’s book/poem thing. Anyway. It’s all good. Picture of Spontaneous Human Combustion clean up for attention. Send good juju.

Guys, I’m just kinda hanging out waiting for the first rejection letter from the queries I sent out. It’s nerve-wracking and I’ve bitten off all my fingernails....

Here is a lovely villanelle for you. Look up the artist and you will probably recognize his work.

Roy Lichtenstein Has Broken My Heart \ Roy Lichtenstein Has Broken My Heart\ \ Amy

Gimme the coffee and no one gets hurt.

My neighbor remarked that he could hear my Troodle Miss Fiona barking inside the house. Now I worry that he hears my fat Italian voice yelling about everything and singing swing songs as I wash the dishes. 👀

Thanks for inviting me Fragments and the Dark

She found them every morning in the paper:

strange symbols, curlicues, typeset

beacons meant only for her.

Underlined by her finger,

inky saviors that brought no rest.

Baron Von Mouseymeister lounging in a vintage baby cradle. Nothing to do with writing, but there you go.

So this one time in SC, we accidentally ran over a giant King snake. My husband picked it up and thought he’d throw it into the woods behind our house, but he aimed wrong and it got looped over a high branch in a tree. Yeah. So all summer we got to watch this poor snake rotting. I don’t know why I’m telling y’all this.