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Author: Cedar Sanderson
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Odd Prompts: Slither
“Your turn to roll.” The alien who was holding out the cup to her was inscrutable. She really didn’t know if that was a smile – was it even a face? The cup, at least, was a familiar item. Styrofoam, the sort used to hold a quick-heat soup long enough for consumption without burning one’s…
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The Library Guardian
Asking the hard questions in life: how do you organize your library? I’m pretty confident I want my non-fiction research type books in the office with me. Art books can be in the bedroom where the art desk currently is (until the Little Man moves out and I co-opt his room as a studio, which…
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Steam-Powered Postcards and an Open Call
The second of the Postcards anthologies is live! Steam-Powered Postcards has twenty-two fifty-word stories, each of them facing their prompt image that inspired the author to create them. I had a hand in many of the illustrations for this book, and I’m delighted at how the entries turned out. For one thing, there’s a story…
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In the Garden
I’ve spent a good portion of my Sunday working in the garden with my son. That’s a reward in and of itself, but seeing my plans move towards reality as plants go in, or start to bloom and grow from earlier work, is just happy-making. The peas are tall, but not blooming. They might not,…
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Carrot Cake
This recipe is a variant, loosely, on the Splendid Spice Cake recipe. With… changes. For one thing, I reduced the overall sugar just a touch. And I took the liqud back a bit, to allow for the addition of carrots. I customized the spice blend to favor carrot’s innate flavors, which included the addition of…
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With a Twist
I’m in this anthology! I had an absolute blast writing the story for it. Jim Curtis gave a lot of leeway to the authors – just take a trope that may be old and tired, then give it a hard twist. I opted to speculate about what could happen if the Chosen One of Prophecy…
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Odd Prompts: The Mad Botanist
This is a snip of a project, spawned from two prompts. One was given to me by a friend when I whined about being ‘stuck’ for ideas. The other is a spare prompt from MOTE. I hope you enjoy! *** We all knew a blue-white flash meant we’d be dead, and likely wishing we were…
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Sunday Evening
I went for a walk this evening. The weather had been stormy earlier in the day, but by the time I wanted to stretch my legs, it was sunny, with just a light breeze. I walked along quiet small-town streets, past inquisitive dogs, was surprised by the sweet scent of a blooming lilac – something…
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Book Review: Texas Fruit & Vegetable Gardening
Mom sent me this book when I first bought the house here in Tiny Town, actually she sent me a few gardening books, which I deeply appreciate! As I’d decided not to garden in a big way last year, but to get a feel for my land, and start building up to the garden this…
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Odd Prompts: Let the Air In
As I’m typing this, I have a kitten patting and biting at the screen. He’s hunting the ‘bugs’ of the black letters and cursor as they dance across the screen. Here’s hoping I don’t have more typos than the usual, but… well, kitten! *** James closed the door firmly after the letting agent, and then…
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Bug Safari
I finally found the time and inclination to do something at this house. After a year of living here (almost!) I got out the camera, macro lens, and went bug hunting.
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Hope Springs
I’m not as young as I once was. I planned for that, this year. Well… I’m planning for the future. Which means I’m exhausted, but setting the foundation for gardens that will, hopefully, need less care next year, and so on going forward. This year? It’s the big stuff. Trees, shrubs, berries, a set of…