A Short Story/Book of Poetry
And now? Albatrossed is finally out! This is something I originally wrote in 2017. The chant royal at the heart of the collection came first in April of that year, then I decided to expand it by writing sonnets that told what happened before and after the chant royal: it's much more a short story than it is a poetry collection, I have to admit. To get those sonnets written, I enrolled in that summer's "Write Like You're Alive" challenge, something the folks at Zoetic Press used to do. During the month of August, participants had to create something artistic every day, and I determined that I my daily output would be one of these sonnets. I distinctly remember working on several of the pieces while sitting in the Denver airport waiting for flights to and from Baltimore for that year's Bronycon, the My Little Pony convention they used to hold there. And on September 1st, I had 31 sonnet...
