13 things about “Dried Flowers”

Thurs­day Thir­teen, the late edition.

(Remem­ber Thurs­day Thir­teens? How about Ran­dom Flick­r­blog­ging? No? Sigh.)

Mov­ing on. Here are 13 things that you’ll find once my sto­ry “Dried Flow­ers” is avail­able for reading.

1. Unre­li­able 3^rd-per­son narration
2. Palimpses­ts ^[1]I mean, the work­ing title was “Palimpses­ts”
3. Flo­ri­le­gia
4. HIC SVNT DRACONES
5. Library apart­ment
6. Birth­day cake ^[2]HAP BIRT NAO
7. Romans à clé ^[3]Well, kind of
8. Whol­ly invent­ed books
9. An auto­graph seeker
10. Snow falling upward
11. Over­heard conversations
12. Women who take male noms de plume
13. Acros­tics

ICYW: “Dried Flow­ers” is my cur­rent work in progress. For­mer­ly titled “Palimpses­ts”, the sto­ry is about a library whose books all seem to be eras­ing themselves.

This sto­ry­telling is sup­port­ed by a grant from the Man­i­to­ba Arts Coun­cil.