go with it

[mrissa]

Today Fireside Magazine has published my new story, Flow. It's got a lavish Galen Dara illustration that I was completely not expecting, so that's a bonus.

This one was very personal for me, and I'm so glad to have found the right magazine home to be able to share it with all of you.

Comments

[anne]

oh

I have real actual tears rolling down my cheeks.

[mrissa]

Thank you. I'm sorry. But thank you.

[anne]

I'm not sorry. I started out crying because my dad and ended up crying because beauty and hope and strength. This is a very you story.

[mrissa]

Thank you. I'm so glad you feel that way.

[sartorias]

I love that story. I think it's my favorite of yours/

[mrissa]

Thank you.

Wow

[magenta]

That is a great story.

Re: Wow

[mrissa]

Thank you.

[matt_doyle]

I really, really like this story. For both personal and artistic reasons (which are not really separate, but begin at different points on a continuum?).

[mrissa]

Thank you.

[sraun]

Love!

[mrissa]

Thank you.

[pameladean]

That is a stunning illustration. It meant I started crying before I even started reading. And not just because I know you, but because of the illustration intrinsically. The story is even more stunning. Its moments are so clear and precise and it has flow, it is flow; I've seldom seen structure mirror events so perfectly. The movement of grief and loss and return is dazzling.

P.

[mrissa]

Oh, thank you, dear.

[tiger_spot]

Oh, that's beautiful.

The illustration is also very nice.

[mrissa]

Thanks.

[themagdalen]

... oh.

yah, i cried too, not till the end. achey bits all through, but I think what unlocked it for me was the bit about the mom.

[mrissa]

Thank you.

[brooksmoses]

Oh. Oh.

(Thank you. For the story, I mean. And also the linking-to.)

[mrissa]

Thank *you*.

[vcmw]

This was beautiful and lyrical and difficult and kind. Thank you so much for writing it and sharing it with us. I'm glad it found a wonderful home!

[mrissa]

Thank you, dear.

[ckd]

I am very glad that I was warned in advance and could therefore wait to read this until I got home and had the right space (both physical and emotional) for the story.

"Wow" is woefully insufficient as a description of my reaction, but any eloquence I might once have had has fled so it will have to do for now.

[mrissa]

Thank you.