Language Learning
Hello there! Some exciting things have happened since my last post: Insignia Stories posted one of my accepted drabbles for Women in Horror Month I received an acceptance for one of the pieces of short fiction I submitted last month! The date is still TBA, but will be posted in April :) I didn't write nearly as much this last month as I had hoped, but I did take time to read more short fiction from both small presses and some of the larger speculative magazines. There's a lot of fun work out there. One of my favorite stories was "The Bahrain Underground Bazaar" by Nadia Afifi, which was published in the November/December 2020 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It was the perfect example of speculative stories that force you to sit with the feelings it conjures for a long time afterward. I also have started taking Vietnamese lessons with an iTalki teacher. I grew up speaking the language with my parents, but like many diaspora kids, the language I speak feels ...