weathering, or: little house on the prairie fan fiction
It was nice to log into Blogspot for the first time in ages and read my happy AWP post from March, just to remember that I haven't consistently been a human dumpster fire for the past one to five years. I am inconsistently a dumpster fire. My current problem is unemployment. I was fortunate to be steadily employed for twenty years(!), weathering the great recession of 2008 and the pandemic. But budget cuts came to 826LA, and my job didn't survive them. I am good at diligently applying for jobs, but so far I haven't actually landed one, and I am bad at dealing with uncertainty. All of which is to say I have not used this time to make my house fabulous or have a creative renaissance. But I did write one short story, which is basically Little House on the Prairie fan fiction. I'm posting it here because I don't think there's a huge literary market for Little House fan fiction. In one of the books, Little Town on the Prairie, Laura teaches at a tiny country sch