by Katherine Villyard | Mar 11, 2023 | drabble
Their lives are so short. Can you believe that at one point, this was illegal? Emily would have had to carry on with broken hips, trashed kidneys, a heart condition that makes surgical intervention impossible. Emily deserved more than this kind of suffering. Which is...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 10, 2023 | drabble
I’m trying to do daily drabbles, for fun. The definition of drabble that I’m using here is that each one is a little microfiction of exactly 100 words. I enjoy the challenge of making it exactly 100 words, and it’s a fun exercise. So hey, if you want...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 10, 2023 | drabble
Electronics don’t work in water. Melusine had a “dry room,” where she kept her Xbox, her computer, her television, her cellphone. The glow from her monitor and a collection of LED lights illuminated the cave walls in blue and green and pink. She would run a nice bath...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 9, 2023 | drabble, vampires
We sat together in the dark, musty office, nervous. The woman across the desk had a wrinkle between her forehead as she frowned at her computer, then back at the papers. “So, what made you want to adopt a baby?” Her voice was bored, toneless. The keyboard clattered....
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 8, 2023 | drabble
She closed the conference room doors and knelt on the meeting table. A packet of salt provided a circle around her. She called upon the forces of plenty, of power, of clever, strategic war, and lit a green candle in the center of the table. Outside, visible through...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 7, 2023 | drabble
The moon glowed, but it was the streetlights that illuminated the streets. He trotted through trash-strewn, dark, reeking alleys, avoiding honking automobiles, and slipped into the park. Everything glowed in a red haze. He caught and ate a squirrel, chased dogs, cats,...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 1, 2023 | giveaways, short fiction
Want a free copy of my book Love Stories? You can get one through this Goodreads Giveaway! Entry is open from March 1 to March 15. Winners announced on March 15. And hey, while you’re there? Maybe follow me on...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 28, 2023 | novels
So, based on feedback, it’s basically not possible to withhold information from my first person main character narrator and tell the reader. I mean, I feel like it should be! but no matter how sledgehammery I think I’m being, people just don’t get...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 13, 2023 | press, short fiction
I hear I’m in Publisher’s Weekly today! 😀 I… haven’t seen it, though. Coincidentally, the ebook of the title in question is 99 cents right now most places ebooks are sold. So if you’d like to read it, now is the time to buy it, while...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 1, 2023 | geekiness
So, when talking about the Librem 5, I mentioned that I had a really old Librem 13 that I wasn’t using as much as I would like. Since then, the laptop that I was running Qubes on seized up and died, so… I’m once again running Qubes on my beautiful...