Weekly Round-up, July 4, 2026

Happy fourth day of July, to those who celebrate. As this post goes live I am probably sitting in my house, hunkered down with a book and attempting to avoid all the loud noises. And the heat.

Reading

Finally some quiet time to read! I picked up and completed Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The City of Mists, a collection of short fiction set in the Barcelona of his Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. Now I am back in the middle of Laura Robson’s Human Capital. Still good. Still infuriating.

Writing

I submitted a couple of poems to the Grand River Poetry Collective anthology. We will see if they are accepted…

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Precursors, Relic
Setting: Battlefield
Genre: Western

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