Andrew Roe

Behold, the Wigleaf Top 50.

My story “Why Is There Champagne in the Fridge?” made the Long Shortlist.

What a great way to start the week/month…

There’s a really nice review of my story “Why We Came to Target at 9:58 on a Monday Night” over at Five Star Literary Stories.

Thanks to Freight Stories editor Andrew Scott for nominating the story, and to Meg Pokrass for such a thoughtful, insightful, engaging review.

And that title would be: The Subversive Copy Editor.

I’d heard of this book a while back, but it looks like it’s now out.

Reminds me of my old boss, Jan, who I learned a lot from.

One of her peeves that has now become one of mine: not using a hyphen when you mean to say “re-create” (“I re-created the entire project from scratch.”) instead of “recreate.”

But is the hyphen in “re-create” dying out? Say it ain’t so.

Ethan: “My sewing machine is going to kill you!”

As I think I mentioned in an earlier post (but maybe not), the k-word has entered my almost four-year-old son’s vocabulary.

Another recent quote, referring to a CD player: “My killing machine is broken!”

Of course he doesn’t really know what “kill” means. But it’s disconcerting nonetheless.