by Anastasia on October 27, 2009
That's a beer bump I'm sporting, not a baby bump!
HOORAY! HALLOWEEN IS JUST around the corner, and we’re celebrating by sharing our favorite sisterly costumes. I must confess that my brother and I never dressed in a joint costume, and I’m pretty sure he hated trick-or-treating with me. I couldn’t keep up with his competitive candy-gathering, and my mermaid/angel/pumpkin costumes really cramped his Black Spiderman/ninja/vampire style. So wearing matching costumes was definitely out of the question. In college, my roommate Elizabeth and I dressed as a hillbilly couple on vacation (pictured above); it was my favorite couple costume of all time! Show us your sisterly (or sister-friend, in my case) outfits of Halloweens past and we’ll put the photos together in a slideshow. Send pictures to thesisterproject [at] gmail [dot] com.
by Anastasia on August 31, 2009
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING, THAT IS. I’m one week deep in graduate school, and I already have manuscripts up to my knees! While I’m getting my fiction bearings down here in North Carolina, why don’t you have a look at some of my past fiction writings that have been featured on TSP. Like “On the Care and Feeding of Animals” a story about young sisters, which I posted back in January, and “About the Weather Though,” a piece on a fictional community’s struggle to deal with the war in Iraq. Or if memoir’s more your thing, read “Picking at Scabs,” my look back on the trials of adolescence. I’ll have more prose to share soon, but in the meantime…enjoy!
(Photo of the Icelandic horses at Robert Woods Farm)
by Anastasia on August 2, 2009
IN ANTICIPATION OF MY TREK southward, I’ve been nesting like nobody’s business. In my head, I see my soon-to-be new apartment as beautiful, clean and cozy, smelling like fresh-baked muffins. (While trying to not envision all the hard work it’s going to take to get me there. Eep!) But my vision just may come true now that I’m a part of a sisterhood with such creative and generous women. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on May 8, 2009
YOU MAY REMEMBER MY CELEBRATORY MFA acceptance dance (with a little help from Ely Kim) when I heard back from the first programs–more acceptances and a fat financial-aid offer later–I’ve decided to attend University of North Carolina, Greensboro in the fall! If you’d like a taste of some of my fiction writings (you’re probably chock-full of my blog writings at this point), here’s On the Care and Feeding of Animals, a story I posted earlier this year. Or how about this new piece of short fiction, called About the Weather, Though. Enjoy, friends!
(photo from Flickr user christine)
by Anastasia on January 4, 2009
A S I MENTIONED before, fiction-writing is both a hobby and a passion of mine. And so for the start of this new year I am offering a piece of worn fiction. It is a story that I have drafted in many versions over the past three years. And while it is still a work in progress (as fiction always seems to be), “On the Care and Feeding of Animals” is a story about sisters in wintertime, and thereby perfect for a TSP January.
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