I have poems in Dreams & Nightmares #129 (Jan 2025) and #130 (May 2025). I enjoy sending poems to David: there are a lot of times that I will finish a piece and his name pops right into my head. About one out of four times I actually do send it in a batch with some others, and then he always picks the one I didn't think he would like as much.
Also, I heard back from the local Escondido Arts Partnership anthology (Summation 17) that two of the poems I wrote about artworks in the January art exhibit were accepted, so that volume should be coming out in the Fall.
The big news:
Our upcoming story/poem/art collection is almost here. It will be called "Flights & Shadows" by Scott Virtes & Terrie Leigh Relf. With the names swapped in various places to be fair. It was quite a process. We chose our own works, then sending batches to each other and picking from those. Then getting together at a coffee shop in Ocean Beach to work on revisions and extend each other's pieces. And we wrote one new once on the fly to wrap it up: it started off as a one line writing prompt from months ago, and turned into a twisting, in-your-face adventures that surprised both of us. We included a lot of my old doodles, and I convinced T to add some of her own sketches. Finally, I took a book cover I composed back in 2009 for a project that was never published, tweaked a few of the layers, and now all the pieces are done and in production.
It is not limited to one genre. It is more of a celebration of just how many different kinds of stories can be conjured. Although our styles feel different in the pieces we composed separately, I think they blend seamlessly in the ones we worked together on.
That was the project of the year. I hope to have some more news soon.
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