I missed the release of a few projects I'm featured in, so I'm posting them here.
My poem Bloody Mary's Weight Loss Camp for Ghouls appeared in Book Worms Jumbo Issue #11 Summer Camp, available here. It's cool to see them doing a traditional zine format.
I have art in the current issue of Penumbric titled Journeys, out in August 2026. You can check it out here.
Please come to my reception for my show at the Salina Public Library if you are in the area. First Friday, Aug. 7 from 4 - 5:30 PM. I have included the show flyer here.
Also, my poem Those Breath Mints is featured in Same Sky, Different Stories published through Wingless Dreamer Publishing in Aug. 2026. You can find it on Amazon here.
I have a short story in the Witches Save the World: Covens, Cauldrons, and Curses Gone Right, one of two volumes just released through Gorgon's Gaze Press. You can find it in a bunch of forms here on their website, just scroll down. Make sure to note I am in the Covens volume.
I hung my marker drawings at the Salina Public Library as one of my final Life Is Brilliant shows. There will be a light First Friday reception on Aug. 7 from 4 - 5:30 so please come if you are in the area. I'll post the poster here as a reminder then.
My poem Turbulence was featured in Spring Went Dark through Wingless Dreamer Publishing, out in July 2026. Available here on Amazon.
I didn't manage to post my progress Thursday due to the event, and Friday I had to pack it up because of unexpected rain, but the pillar murals are done. Here are a few photos of the end result from different angles. It is fun to walk through them, like a garden.
I worked on two of the pillars today because it was hot and my shade moved. So here is some of that effort. Hoping to finish one of them during Third Thursday tomorrow and then only have 1 1/2 left. Probably not going to finish until Monday...
I am deeply honored that my poem To the City Planners appeared in Thanatapathy's "Remember Kids, Cars Kill" edited by Bikemore's Coraline Ismael Karim and presented in a reading in July 2026 and in this book issue here.
And I finished the second new pillar today, shown from three angles here.
I got my first of the new pillars done painting today. Here are three views of it.
So I managed to get in three days of painting this week before the threat of rain and am mostly done mapping out my colors. I need to finish one more green and then touch up that color on all of them before I go on to do linework.
Update on the mural: I got all of the blue and other colors but green done, except the black linework. This is coming along quick so far.
My proposal was accepted so I am embarking on my biggest mural project yet, to paint five more sunflower pillars on the pavilion at DCI Park in Hutchinson. I will help to create cohesion and tie the whole of the pavilion together by painting every other pillar to match while other artists do their own unique creative things on the remaining pillars. I am glad to be such a big part of this project. Today I got the blue done on three of my remaining five pillars, and I hope to finish the blue and the alternative colors this week. I may even manage to start on the green but I'm pretty sure the black, which is the most time-intensive, will have to wait until next week at the earliest.
I worked on another Positivity Pollinators sign to go with the Sphinx Moth I did awhile back for all of the placemaking community work Hutch Rec is doing. I think all the signs will be on display again for the Third Thursday in August 2026.
My poem Head Full of Moss appeared in Issue #54 of the Fib Review through Muse Pie Press in June 2026. You can find it here.
Today is the last day of my show at Metropolitan Coffee in Hutchinson. I will be taking the show down late this morning so catch it while you can.
I am excited that my Witch Hayzelle Recipes for Disaster are listed as part of the Kaidenkai Summer 2026 Book Sale! Check it out here.
The Interview, another of my snarky pieces for Gaslamp Pulp, was featured in Issue 5: Superheroes published through Nat 1 Publishing in June 2026. You can find it on Amazon here.
My Letter to Demeter was featured in Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice 2026 as a prose poem based on length. Check it out here.
My 30,000 Pounds of Bananas short story in modern homage to the Harry Chapin song appeared in miniMAG Issue #207. Check it out here.
I also appeared in Edge of Humanity's Magazine Poetry Anthology for June 2026 here with a reprint of my Evolution of Marriage poem, originally seen through the Interpretations show and book project through Columbia Art League.
After the Strange Play event, Voidspace Live is also doing their own event from June 6 - 7, 2026, also at the Theatre Deli in London. And my Contacting the Outer Planes will be a part of that event also. Again, I wish I could go see it, it sounds like a lot of fun. Tickets available here.
I am very excited to have two stories (and recipes) in Let the Right One Simmer, a horror fiction cookbook compilation available from Campfire Publishing in June 2026. You can find it digitally on Amazon here. It is also available through the Campfire Publishing website if you want print copy.
