WOUNDED BIRD

KP Schoonover, Writer of Dark and Trauma Lit ~ Founding Editor, 34 ORCHARD

  • INBOX DAY FOUR

    We have just about 450 submissions in the inbox so far. It was really exciting to wake up on New Year’s Day and do The Twilight Zone marathon and see all of these wonderful subs coming in. I’d forgotten how joyful opening up that inbox and seeing it all is. It’s like another Christmas. At Read more

  • I AM SHORT STORY

    The HP Lovecraft Film Festival was a joy this year—I watched sixty short films. I was impressed with all but blown away by a handful. Topping my list was the 19-minute “After the Fall,” a literary-cosmic crossover in which the world wakes up to see dead gods in the sky. In the credits, I discovered Read more

  • HOT TIMES AT THE DINOSAUR BIDET

    I woke up this morning and thought it would really be great to stay in bed all day. Read and watch movies. Take an honest day off, because one thing I’ve learned is that I don’t know how to just be. My “days off,” now that I’m not working, are always filled with a million Read more

  • I WASTED LAST NIGHT’S WRITE-IN…

    The Parlor Write-in at 34 Orchard was successful last night (and this was after, yes, I spent an hour pulling together the email lists for future mailings! Go me!). We all got a lot of work done. I got work done, too, but not the work I was supposed to be doing, which was working Read more

  • SNOWY DAY

    I look out the window and the snow is clumped on the tree branches in the woods, and it’s still falling like sprays of white woodchips. In the past, this view would’ve filled me with dread (because I’d inevitably be expected to go out in it), but today, when I have to go nowhere, it Read more