Rhiannon Held / R. Z. Held

Tag: random acts of imagination

  • Excavator

    I have returned to civilization! I spent about half a week at my grandparents’, which I class as a writing retreat, because there’s absolutely nothing to do in their house, above and beyond the lack of internet. Grocery shopping every few days is a grand adventure. But it did mean I finished the discovery draft…

  • Christmas trees

    Watching other people, I feel like I somehow missed a key component of the Christmas tree experience. There’s a place just down the road that sells them, and it has a lot of different sizes this year (even the trees are smaller in this economy!) and so every time I drive past, I see people…

  • Basement Coyotes

    This week seems to be a waiting game: both the markets I have stories with at the moment are taking longer than usual to get back to me, though I suppose I can’t blame the reply coming via mail snails. The mail snails are very earnest! They’ve dropped off a great number of my short…

  • Package tracking

    The other day I splurged on a geeky impulse purchase (here for the curious) and I’ve been package tracking its journey across the country since then. It’s funny how I’ve come to take that for granted–I got something else recently from an Amazon independent seller that didn’t bother to put up any tracking info, and…