Archive - Melt With Me

July 2025

State Facts for the Coming Future

The state song of Colorado is “Where the Columbines Grow,” columbine, in this case, being a sub-alpine and alpine lavender and white flower that blooms…

Jul 30 •

There's Always an Evil Man Standing in a Tower Somewhere

On Thursday, Lightspeed Magazine published a short story of mine titled “You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb.” (The title, by the way, comes from a…

Jul 27 •

You Knit Me Together In My Mother's Womb

Friends, my short story “You Knit Me Together In My Mother’s Womb” is up at Lightspeed Magazine, one of the very best sci-fi/fantasy journals alive…

Jul 24 •

Some Small, Good Things

Last weekend Anna, Jenn’s niece, brought me a balrog.

Jul 20 •

I Did Not Use AI To Write This

Rest assured I wrote these rhythms.

Jul 17 •

On Footprints and Gardens

I was walking around our back yard this morning when I remembered a sign I saw outside a state park that said “Take only pictures, leave only…

Jul 16 •

A few years ago a woman Jenn used to work with was in a terrible accident.

Jul 13 •

Last weekend Jenn and I went to the Spencer Museum of Art on the KU campus for the Bold Women exhibit.

Jul 9 •

When You Are Old and Reading My ‘Stack, Try Not to Think of Me as an Awful Hack

A few years before my grandmother died in 2017 we moved her into an assisted-living facility, and sometime in the process of going through the things at…

Jul 6 •

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