Description: #Audio. Three stories by The Bathtub Mermaid: Take Back the Light, Waltzing in the Woods, and Daedalus, Diminished. Excerpt: And everyone knows that you shouldn’t wade while wearing velvet. It soaks up the water and drags you down to the bottom of the sea. The cold, dark Atlantic is unforgiving that way. Links and […]

Description: #Audio. Many voices, one common wish for peace and social justice Excerpt: Fill the hearts of mankind with the fire of your love, and with the desire to ensure justice for all. Links and References The Dog Days of Advent Special thanks Nuchtchas of NIMLAS Studios Special thanks (in order of appearance) to Selena, […]

Description: #Audio. A mother finds solace in music during a delay at the airport. Excerpt: Kathleen stared up at the status board, and couldn’t help letting out a frustrated groan. Her flight had been delayed. Again. She liked her life as a road warrior, for the most part. She got to stay in lovely hotels, […]

Description: #Audio. Happy Hanukkah! It’s the second night of Hanukkah, so this is a Hanukkah story. Excerpt: She played the chord again, and saw the children gathered around her focus their attention. And why not? They’d grown up with digital instruments: violins and cellos that relied on computer chips for their tone, guitars that made […]

Description: Sunday Brunch column for Modern Creative Life. An essay on the flames we light in winter. Excerpt: And yet, these winter holidays all have something in common as well – aside from the tendency to celebrate with incredibly delicious, albeit unhealthy foods. They all bring light to the longest nights of the year. Links […]

Description: Flash-fiction written for 2016 Holidailies: A young woman and her grandmother add Holiday Magic to some seasonal plants. Excerpt: The inside of the greenhouse is a technological marvel, with heat lamps and misters and every kind of measuring implement ever invented to track growth rates and division patterns, to determine optimal climate zones and […]

Description: Flash-fiction: an aunt and niece discuss the holidays and Eartha Kitt. Excerpt: The older woman’s dithering lit a fire in her niece. “Aunt Lena you have been playing hermit at Christmas since I was sixteen years old. I’m twenty-six now, and Brian is probably going to propose on Christmas Eve, and I want my […]

Description: Sunday Brunch essay from Modern Creative Life. Excerpt: Rather, I’m a backyard bird-watcher. I enjoy following the antics of the bully Blue Jay who drives the starlings and finches out of the trees, only for them to settle right back in. Winter comes with doves, one of whom insists that the birdfeeder is really […]

Description: Three pieces of spooky short fiction, read by the Bathtub Mermaid and Friends. Excerpt: I, on the other hand, died in the prettiest way possible. No, not alcohol. Not pills either. Consumption. Oh, you call it tuberculosis these days, but when I was living, it was consumption. Links & References: It’s Raining Men Read […]

Description: Three pieces of spooky short fiction, read by the Bathtub Mermaid and Friends. Excerpt: I plunge backwards into the water. They always push you overboard in the split second when you forget to anticipate the shove. The theory is that if you can’t see the waves coming to greet you, you’re less likely to […]