That’s how my short story, “Darkness Follows,” begins. With a drink and a memory and a knock at the door. I first started this story in 2016 during a Writers’ League of Texas workshop. It was just a page of notes then, but it soon grew into a full story. I titled it “Knocking” andContinue reading “Darkness Follows, Then Laughter Follows After”
Tag Archives: Humor
Conquest or Coincidence?
Today, at the Austin Poetry Society’s Online Annual Awards Celebration, my poem “Growing Faces” won first place in The Unexpected Award. I’m excited that this weird, somewhat creepy little poem will appear in the 2019-2020 volume of Best Austin Poetry and can’t wait to see it come out in print later this year. In theContinue reading “Conquest or Coincidence?”
Mid-Year Crisis
Teachers, listen to me. No, seriously, pick your head up off that desk or out of that bucket of wine, and LISTEN. I get it. I really, really do. It’s the end of February, which means… You have six weeks until the STAAR test and eight weeks of lessons that you need to teach beforeContinue reading “Mid-Year Crisis”
Carie Juettner 