“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” —Edgar Allen Poe The holidays can be a challenging time for some, and I feel it is appropriate to share the following for a sense of community and the common good: The Horror Writer’s Association launched its Mental Health Initiative over the summer, and one of the facets is Of Horror and Hope, a curated anthology featuring original flash fiction, poems, and personal vignettes from member

Writing spaces are important. It took me a long time to set one up. Before the pandemic, I would write on the road when I traveled with work or sometimes set up a laptop on the table and just go for it in brief intervals. When I switched from a laptop to a desktop, that cemented the creation of a space. My current writing space is actually a section of the bedroom by the windows. I have to have a window, a portal to the outside, when I write. I like the dichotomy of the creat