1. Rewrite (by hand!) "The Clementine of Enlightenment", my unpublished short story inspired by an encounter while hiking near Harper's Ferry, WV.
    
2. Finish my latest round of edits to "READOUT: Aysudalit", my unpublished short story about first contact with a sentient planet comprised mostly of water.
    
3. Finish English > Spanish translation #1. (This one is challenging.)
    
4. Finish English > Spanish translation #2. (VERY excited about this one.)
    
5. Complete Draft #1 of the Water Tower story. (Very weird concept, but it's gonna be EXCELLENT.)
    
6. Complete Draft #1 of the Mermaid story. (Inspired by real-life events, there may be merfolk or there may not. I need to finish a draft so I can find out, too!)
    
7. Write more poems! (No target quantity, since I can't control when or where I feel like writing them.)

WEEK 3 UPDATE (7/12):

Apparently I was a genius and wrote my Week 2 update but never actually published it. *facepalm*

I'm participating in the NYCMidnight Flash Fiction 2021 contest! Round 1, Part 1 was this weekend and after several false starts, I finally wrote a brand new story that I'm proud of! It'll be a while before I hear how I did, and what my Round 1, Part 2 assignment is, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed! (Learn more about what the contest entails here: http://www.nycmidnight.com/Competitions/FFC/Challenge.htm)

Goal progress:

* Started rewriting "The Clementine of Enlightenment" by hand.
* Finished edits to "Readout: Aysudalit" and started shopping the revised story around for publication.
* Wrote several starts to the Water Tower story, but not happy with any of them.
* Wrote ~3? new poems!

Reading:

1. Film for Her, by Orion Carloto (poetry & photography collection)
2. "Thirteen of the Secrets in My Purse" by Rachel Swirsky (short fiction, brilliant!)
3. "Along Our Perforated Creases" by K. W. Colyard (short fiction, also brilliant!)
4. Submerge, by K. Y. Robinson (poetry collection; reread)
5. The Unbroken, by C. L. Clark (fantasy novel; I read this during Week 2, it's phenomenal and you should read it ASAP. READ IT NOW!)

Genres:

• Science Fiction
• Fantasy
• Slipstream
• Weird
• Science Fantasy
• Horror

Forms:

• Poems (speculative & literary)
• Short Stories (original & Spanish/English translations)
• Novels (science fantasy & fantasy)

Here's a list of (most) of my published work so far! I'm always shopping around more stories, poems, and translations, so hopefully it will get longer.

Short Fiction

• "Mother's Love" (2020)
• "San Cibernético" (2018 in The Internet Is Where the Robots Live Now, reprinted in 2020 by The Dread Machine)

Translation

• "Imilla" by Vania T. Curtidor (2021)

Poetry

• Dwarf Stars 2020 (forthcoming!)
• NewMyths.com (2017; forthcoming 2021!)
• Quatrain.Fish (2020-2021)
• Three Line Poetry (2021)
• Octavos (2020)
• Honeyguide Literary Magazine (2020)
• Esopian Literary Magazine (ca. 2005)

Editing

• Darkness Blooms (forthcoming, 2022)
• Mixtape: 1986 (forthcoming, 2021)
• The Dread Machine (Nov. 2020 to present)
• Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction (2017)
• MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, Volume 1, Numbers 1-3 (2016-2017)