Here's one: That's running a bit late, but, well, better late than never, as the kids like to say. It's the Spring Equinox 2025 issue of Journ-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature , y'see, even though the larger world around us, observing that I'm posting this on the Wednesday after Memorial Day, might be inclined to believe that we've entered the unofficial beginning of Summer. Still, I've got a story called "Cleanse" in the aforementioned issue, the third of the stories I've had published in Journ-E about the talking cats, dogs, and birds living in the magical Realm of Marigold. I'll add here my standard proviso when discussing these Marigold stories: any resemblance between the characters and settings here and the characters and settings of the cartoon series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is entirely purposeful. The first of the stories, in cas...
