Enacting Christmas (2022.12.26)
This is our first adult Christmas.

Approximately 42 (2022.12.13)
I lose sleep over turning forty-two.

Gratitude Circle (2022.11.20)
I am grateful to be a writer, but more grateful to be with a person who has allowed me to become a great one.

Blacks Don't Match (2022.11.05)
Women rushing by in cars find me attractive. At lower speeds? Maybe not as much.

Ancestor Feast (2022.10.29)
I feast for Samhain, but it isn't for my ancestors.

Fire Works (2022.10.24)
Amber and I visit two fires and see some in the sky.

Bad Witch (2022.10.08)
A fire does bring out the witchcraft in people.

The Neurodivergents (2022.09.18)
Amber and I have odd brains, so it is good we have separate bodies.

Candy Ambulance (2022.09.17)
I become obsessed with a band whom I meant to love as a lark.

Moving Lee (2022.09.01)
I drive for eight hours to moving my niece five miles, confronting that I am not a pretty freshman.

Autumn Falling (2022.08.30)
Autumn is falling, welcomed by some. Still, we get a county fair out of it.

The Essence of Portland (2022.08.12)
We spend a week in Portland, Maine. Bryan spends most of it on his phone.

Lake George and Pals (2022.07.28)
Amber and I go to Lake George with her mother, Daniel, and Kest. I am mostly pleasant for some of it.

Old Friends (2022.07.12)
Bryan gets a little older. My environment is too clean to be mentally healthy.

Night's Welcome (2022.07.04)
We may not belong to the night any longer, but we revel in it all the same.

The Adjective Queer (2022.07.01)
Gender is just, like, your opinion, man.

Roe Upstream (2022.06.27)
The Supreme Court are snakes. (Not good snakes.)

Kristina in the Forest (2022.06.18)
Kristina deserves a good job and a better love.

Poughkeepsie Pride (2022.06.12)
I attend a Pride event where my straight(ish) associates deal with singledom.

Heat Death (2022.05.15)
We will die, the universe will die, but we have the glorious now to be together.

Anomalous Citing (2022.05.01)
The head librarian points a ufologist my way.

The Neglected Lock (2022.04.30)
In 2001, Melissa tried to sexually assault me.

Date Night (2022.04.24)
Amber and I have a great weekend and, technically, no one was murdered.

Spilled Milk (2022.03.27)
Amber and I have relationship stress over Arthur Miller, thick milk, and my mental health.

Attach Easily (2022.03.16)
I am praised for caring about my student.

Ingrid (2022.02.22)
I make friends with a comic novelist and artist. This seems exactly like the sort of friend I ought to have.

Hyena (2022.02.17)
Much as I wish, I do not work at the pound but a facility that contains maladjusted murderers.

At the Water's Edge (2022.02.07)
I visit Melissa on the edge of a pond.

Omicron (2022.01.17)
Amber and I finally get COVID.
We're fine.

The (Not So) Late Jake? (2022.01.10)
Our neighbor tells Amber that he has terminal cancer, but maybe not?

Love under Blacklight (2022.01.03)
Blacklight mini-golf reminds me how much I adore my wife.

One Year Down (2022.01.01)
We see how my predictions held up! (Not well.)

Thomm Quackenbush is an author and teacher in the Hudson Valley. He has published four novels in his Night's Dream series (We Shadows, Danse Macabre, Artificial Gods, and Flies to Wanton Boys). He has sold jewelry in Victorian England, confused children as a mad scientist, filed away more books than anyone has ever read, and tried to inspire the learning disabled and gifted. He is capable of crossing one eye, raising one eyebrow, and once accidentally groped a ghost. When not writing, he can be found biking, hiking the Adirondacks, grazing on snacks at art openings, and keeping a straight face when listening to people tell him they are in touch with 164 species of interstellar beings. He likes when you comment.