Posted in authors, chickens, livestock, Martyrs Mirror, publications on March 8, 2011| 1 Comment »
The Cresset picked up one of my pieces about the backyard hooligans. It’s from several years back–I read it at EMU and later used it as a summer sermon at Shalom Mennonite. I’m glad it found a home in print.
For the few brave subscribers–I’m clearly not a prolific blog updater these days. It turns out I’m a one-blog kind of woman. Most of my energy is currently going into the Tongue Screws and Testimonies site. Don’t worry, though. I’ll be back.
Posted in authors, publications on September 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I rub shoulders with greatness in Robert Swartwood’s forthcoming anthology of Hint Fiction.
Here’s the Amazon blurb:
A story collection that proves less is more. The stories in this collection run the gamut from playful to tragic, conservative to experimental, but they all have one thing in common: they are no more than 25 words long. Robert Swartwood was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s possibly apocryphal six-word story—”For Sale: baby shoes, never worn”—to foster the writing of these incredibly short-short stories. He termed them “hint fiction” because the few chosen words suggest a larger, more complex chain of events. Spare and evocative, these stories prove that a brilliantly honed narrative can be as startling and powerful as a story of traditional length. The 125 gemlike stories in this collection come from such best-selling and award-winning authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, Peter Straub, and James Frey, as well as emerging writers.
(I’m one of those “emerging” writers.)
Posted in authors, Martyrs Mirror, Mennonites, publications on August 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
My anthology should be out by December! Click on the image to pre-order from Herald Press. Or click here to visit the book’s website: www.martyrstock.wordpress.com, where you can access author webpages, additional resources, and all sorts of material I promise to post in the very near future.
Posted in honeybees, livestock, publications on August 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Read a bit of my work over at The Tusculum Review.
On the twelfth day of the first year of the Obama administration, as the nation’s economy continued to crumble, we opened our beehive and found the colony dead.
Through most of the winter, we left the bees alone so as not to release the heat they generated huddled between their walls of honey. But when the temperature rose into the 50s, the bees could bear the air enough to take brief cleansing flights, and we dared to open the hive for a few minutes. We had plenty of unseasonable warmth this year—sunny days when the bees flew to gather maple sap, risen during the freezing night, draining through holes the sapsucker drilled through the bark. No bees were flying the afternoon we opened the hive, but we assumed they’d finished their business in the warmest part of the day. A few dead bees lay scattered below the hive, evidence of the cleaning efforts of the workers.
Read on.
Kirsten Eve Beachy 