“With Deepest Gratitude,” one of the pieces in my will-it-ever-be-published collection, is posted on Reconceiving Loss. I am thankful each time I am published, but I wish this wasn’t my story to tell. I break a little bit every time I share it. I don’t know if this will ever change; I do believe that […]
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Lioness.
La bloga has been on a November hiatus as I participate in NaNoWriMo. Check out this post from 2011. I roared before Katy Perry.
Telling Tales.
The latest installment of my occasional contribution to the “Interview” section of KGB Bar Literary Magazine. If you are a writer or poet with a recently or soon-to-be released work, and would like to be featured in “Telling Tales,” please contact me via email. If you’re a publisher or agent, this Boricua has got a […]
Telling Tales.
The latest installment of my occasional contribution to the “Interview” section of KGB Bar Literary Magazine. If you are a writer or poet with a recently or soon-to-be released work, and would like to be featured in “Telling Tales”, please contact me via email. And hey, if you’re a publisher or agent, this Boricua has […]
Bravery?
“You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?” — Talking Heads It was 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Ru Freeman and Jamaica Kincaid sat on a stage and talked. I sat in the front row and took notes in my “writing” notebook, i.e., the one only for information essential to […]
NMB published in Jet Fuel Review.
Thanks to Jet Fuel Review for publishing two of my “divinely inspired” flash fiction pieces.
Prom queen dreams.
I’m looking for a prom date. I’m also 41 years old. I’m not having a mid-life crisis. I don’t cruise local pizzerias to ogle teenage boys. My situation is worse. I’m a writer with a freshly finished manuscript and hopes of publication. The query process to agents and publishers gives me flashbacks of high […]
NMB reads @ Steam Cafe / Wednesday, April 24
Enjoy java, yummies, and support the local lit scene in JC. Spread the word. Wordsmithing Wednesdays (April 24 @ 7 p.m.) @ Steam Cafe (276 Newark Avenue, Jersey City).
La chupacabra and the bogeyman.
I’m in my 40s, but no fool. I know la chupacabra has a taste for little Puerto Rican women and the bogeyman lives underneath my bed. I’m afraid of both of them, so I avoid El Yunque after dark and leap into bed from a distance of at least three feet so the bogeyman can’t […]
Crossing the finish.
I finished. One hundred and fifty-four manuscript pages completed, edited, proofed, and submitted to two first-novel competitions on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. One of the most frequent questions I’m asked is how long it took to write the collected short stories. My answer: I don’t know. It’s not because I’m brain-drained from sleep deprivation […]