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An oak I've drawn from time to time.

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Wee character designs...

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the first NSGP adventure.

The adventures of the Not-So-Great Pumpkin.

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I love Halloween!

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I want a series where it starts with a classic Robin Hood origin story. But then halfway through book two some old geezer shoves a baby at Maid Marian, and she gets attached. Standard hijinks ensue, the baby gets captured, the baby gets lost, someone kidnaps the baby 'for its own good' and they have to convince these people that despite being outlaws they can totally be respectable parents.

Then five books later, the kid, who they named Arthur, is fifteen and he pulls some magic sword out of a rock.

Now you've got a teenage king who was raised by a bunch of backroad outlaws. And no way are those outlaw parents, (and uncles/brothers) going to let their precious child bear the burden of the throne alone.

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Party on the graveyard wall.

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One more spice witch.

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Off to the party.

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Minstrel of Mushrooms. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpkRfnrnMXq/

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More Not-So-Great Pumpkin...

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Just more Not So Great Pumpkin...

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First Among Seconds

There’s a delicate, industrious ticking at my left-hand side. A tiny golden hand advancing second by second around the upturned face of a watch from 1969. My grandfather’s watch. A watch I didn’t know existed before this month, belonging to a man I’d never met, whose personal effects I just traveled 5300 miles to retrieve after 30 years in storage.

I’ve always been a sucker for tiny, functional items; things that carry the evidence of daily activity and the particular devotion of the mundane. A monument may dazzle, but it’s the sealed jar from Pompeii that sticks with me after all these years, its lid lifted to reveal the scooped impression of three fingers in white cream.

How many times have I scooped lotion from a jar? Fidgeted with a ring? Buttoned on a coat?

How could I have known that winding this watch would bring it back to life as if no time at all had passed?

[Originally published on my blog.]

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I'm joining the inimitable Carson Ellis for a conversation at Bart's Books this month! Come help celebrate the release of her new book, One Week in January, on October 12th in the Bart's courtyard from 6-7pm. We'll be chatting about creative booms in funky towns, spending time with our younger selves, and finding community in rural spaces. Event details here. More bloggy stuff about it on my site here.

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hey, i just found out that you had this, and i wanted to tell you how much i appreciate your work! it was my absolute favorite as a kid, and it got me and my sister through some tough times! your work is absolutely wonderful agh i'm repeating myself sorry! thank you!!!

I'm so glad the stories were a part of your life!