Tag Archives: september 2025

Mark Woodward wins Spillwords Press September 2025 Publication of the Month.

I hope you will join me in congratulating Mark Woodward for winning the Spillwords Press September 2025 Publication of the Month Award.  Mr. Woodward won for his poem, “Crossed Wires.”

(And for those of you who voted for the short story of mine that was nominated, I do thank you.)  🙂



Just a quick reaniminder …

If you happened to enjoy my zombie story over at Spillwords Press,  it’s been nominated for Publication of the Month for September 2025.

You can vote for the story right here — just bear in mind that you must register with Spillwords Press first.



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My zombie story was nominated for a Spillwords Press Award

Well, cool.  🙂

My zombie tale, “The Siege of Fort Buzzard,” was nominated for Publication of the Month for September over at Spillwords Press.  (The online magazine published the story on September 21.)

If you enjoyed the story and would like to vote for me, you may do so right here at this link.

Recall, please, that you would need to be registered to vote.  (There is no cost to do that.)  If you haven’t already registered, you can do that easily right here.

Thank you so much to all who read the story and nominated me!  🙂



Photo credit: Mobilus In Mobili, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Birds circling in unison over Market Square, Roanoke, Virginia

September 2025 — last night’s dusk.

These cell phone videos don’t really do the scene justice.  They looked soooo cool soaring and circling as a flock.  If you listen closely during the videos, you can hear them chirping.

Alien Buddha Press publishes my flash fiction story, “Bill and I”

I’m happy to share here that Alien Buddha Press published my flash fiction story “Bill and I” today in Issue 78 of Alien Buddha Zine.   🙂

If you’d care to read the story, you can order the September issue from Amazon.  The standard color version of the magazine can be found right here, while the black-and-white issue can be found here.

Thanks once again to Founding Editor Nicholas “Red” Redf for letting me be a part of this terrific indie magazine!