My Write Club cohort, Ms. Gwenda Bond, just published her first story, Cassie Says, in The Journal of Mythic Arts where you can read it online. For free! It’s a fantastic story and it’s been amazing to watch it transformed as Gwenda reworked it over the past year (two years?). I can honestly say that I had nothing to do with the miraculous finished effort, but I get to be all proud anyway because, d00d! I read it way before you did! And I knew it when it was just a wee young thing. Gwenda’s got the goods, peeps!

There’s also a very great, very short piece by Holly Black, Going Ironside. It’s exactly like being inside the brain of an over-caffeinated teenager. Even if that teenager happens to be fey and not so human. Same thing, right?

I know I’m supposed to categorize these with words like ‘YA’ and ‘fantasy,’ but fuck that. They’re great stories. Period.