I don’t know what to tell you: week 1 of GRIEF

It’s very hard to write about grief while in the midst of it. C.S. Lewis wrote his book on grief–A Grief Observed–while going through the process. He was a well established author by then, and there could be no other way to work it out for him. Joan Didon was also an established writer of […]

A Bard’s Privilege

A man can lie, cheat and steal, He can do everything wrong. He can wound every friend he has, As long as he does it with a song. A woman can sin and fall, For all the worst things can long, She can be as lustful as a man, As long as she does it […]

Defining Normal

Hannah 2.2

Hannah heard the pounding at the door and her eyes flew open. That was the same moment she noticed something warm and wet running down her cheek. She rose to sit in her bed, wiping at her face with the back of her hand. She pulled back and looked at it. Her hand was stained […]

Hannah

Hannah 2.1 “Why did you marry a scribner anyway?” The cat Squirrelbane asked as he twitched his tail. His midnight black fur reflected the early morning sun more than his green eyes did. “What is a scribner anyway but an unglorified historian?” “You know why,” Hannah replied as she dug down in the dirt with […]

Rescue me

Your eyes said “rescue me!” But your kiss said “let me drown.” And once my heart took flight It was too high to bring down. (c) Noelle Campbell 2015 dedicated to John Sorensen

Magic Spaces

Magic spaces she goes places inside her head Magic spaces forgetting faces of the dead Many choices quiet noises “Time travel” she said Many choices stop the voices talking in her head.

Martian Goods

There’s a morning fog Tinged with red Signs of life On a planet once dead.

Martian Goods – excerpt in ASL

Lots of you guys know I was married to a deaf man, and so have done a lot of things and gathered many experiences form within the deaf community. Some of my characters are inspired by the deaf people I know (and even some of the dreaded CODAs ;P ). This excerpt below has been […]

Martian Goods (an exceprt from the anthology)

You might look at the logs from a year ago and come to the same conclusion I did then: She could be a cold-hearted bitch.

Still. . .a cold hearted bitch is better company than an empty starship.