The Light and the Dark
Today is the autumnal equinox, the astronomical beginning of autumn. It's also Mabon, one of the modern pagan festivals honoring the...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
There's Only So Much I Can Take
before I close the door and lock it behind me. Work needs doing, but even now, even years into this thing, I have a hard time justifying...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20223 min read
And Just Where the *Hell* Have You Been?
I mean, it's a valid question, right? During the website refresh it was made very clear by looking at my poetry and story sales. I...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
Meet Shadow
So last Tuesday I was minding my own business, obliviously heading into my local Best Buy, when I heard the most pitiful meowing in the...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
The Void Looks Back
Last week I picked up my journal again, after nearly a year's hiatus. Journaling has always worked that way for me; I've had years where...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
You Have My Permission
Happy New Year...slightly late and somewhat discombobulated, but I'm still here, and that's a thing, isn't it? This year I didn't make...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20223 min read
Running From Zombies & a New Story Announcement
This morning, I posted this photo on my personal Facebook page: And if you think it's hard to look at, imagine how it felt. The left side...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
"Don't Make a Sound as We Hit the Ground"
Hello from the edge of Hell where we are not quite sitting in the grip of The Winter That Wouldn't Quit, though we do seem to have...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20221 min read
Underwhelmed.
In this week's episode I head outdoors and in less than five minutes realize that I'm mysteriously covered in fire ants from head to toe....
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
"Here, where the world is quiet"
Thanks to Codex, the writers' group I belong to, I was able to write three shiny new pieces of flash fiction in January. All are...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
Well.
Yikes, it's been a while. (Knock. Knock.) Anybody in there? Hello from the frozen wastelands of South Louisiana. Ok, let's start over....
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
"The Wind and the Rain Bring Back Words of a Song"
I'm writing early today, before the whole house wakes up and the chaos reigns once more. Being pulled in a thousand directions lately....
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
Waiting for the Rain
The other day it rained for the first time in over five weeks. The ground was cracked and dry, and dust clung to every surface--trees,...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20221 min read
Damn the Torpedoes
And then yesterday Tom Petty died. I'm not even going to attempt (not yet, anyway) to speak about the tragedy in Las Vegas. It was...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
"Leave a silver lining scar."
One of the reasons I don't post a lot is because it feels like every post has to have a MEANINGFUL SUBJECT. Sometimes that just doesn
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20220 min read
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20221 min read
Summer Solstice 2017
Outside it's sunny and breezy; the northwestern edge of Tropical Storm Cindy is brushing by us with long, thin fingers of clouds....
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20225 min read
The Wild Side
When you live as deep in the woods as I do, a few things are bound to happen. One of those things is a close encounter (or two) with...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
The GI Diet
I spent this weekend in the kind of hell that's only reserved for the worst sorts of monsters. Seriously. I actually kind of feel sorry...
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Lynette Mejia
Oct 31, 20222 min read
On Nihilism (and Christmas cookies)
So recently I came across this. It's an opinion piece, to be sure, but the fact that the author is expressing the opinion that the items...
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