Janet Alcorn

Janet Alcorn

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    Open House is published on the Storyteller Series podcast!

    October 1, 2021 /

    It’s up! It’s up! It’s up! SQUEE!! Ahem. Let’s try that again. I’m delighted to announce that my short story, “Open House,” is published on Night Shift Radio‘s The Storyteller Series podcast. The Storyteller Series presents original short stories (like mine! SQUEE!) as audio dramas with a full cast of voice actors. Check it out on Spotify (use the player above) or your favorite podcast player (and while you’re there, check out the other great stories on the podcast. I especially liked Tom Witkowski‘s, “The Guardian Devil”). So why am I squeeing all over the place? Because I’m a teenager trapped in a 50-something body (Get me out of this…

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    Orange bridge like a smaller version of the Golden Gate disappearing into grey fog. Setting for my award-winning mystery short story, "Walk Me Home."

    Check out my award-winning mystery story, “Walk Me Home”

    December 21, 2022
    Cover of 2022 issue of Harmony Magazine

    “A Christmas Duet” is published in Harmony Magazine

    April 5, 2022
    Part of cover image for Deathlehem 2022 holiday horror anthology showing skeletal monster in Santa suit sticking clawed fingers into Santa's eyes

    Holiday horror short story published in Deathlehem anthology!

    December 31, 2022
  • Short Stories,  Weekend Writing Warriors

    Beginning of an as-yet-unnamed Christmas horror story (#WeWriWa #2)

    September 26, 2021 /
    Foggy scene with evergreen trees in foreground and blurred house in background lit with Christmas lights

    Good morning, and welcome to my second post for the Weekend Writing Warriors blog hop (see all my Weekend Writing Warriors posts here). Right now I’m revising the first draft of a Christmas horror story I hope to submit to the Deathlehem anthology–if I can get it done quickly enough. I’m horribly slow at revising. Here are the first 10 sentences: Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child.Billy Foraker lifted the little boy off his lap, gave him a half-hearted, “Ho, ho, ho,” and rubbed his temples.Bye bye, lully, lullay.Ugh, that song again. He’d heard some version of it at least six times since his shift started at Stockton Galleria Mall.…

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    Part of cover image for Deathlehem 2022 holiday horror anthology showing skeletal monster in Santa suit sticking clawed fingers into Santa's eyes

    Holiday horror short story published in Deathlehem anthology!

    December 31, 2022
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    Are holidays for rest or productivity?

    December 7, 2022
    Desert wasteland with post-apocalyptic settlement

    Snippet from “Collateral Damage” (WeWriWa #1)

    September 4, 2021
  • Short Stories,  Weekend Writing Warriors

    Snippet from “Collateral Damage” (WeWriWa #1)

    September 4, 2021 /
    Desert wasteland with post-apocalyptic settlement

    Welcome to my first post for Weekend Writing Warriors! Yes, I’m joining yet another blog hop. If this keeps up, I’m going to have to find a support group for people addicted to blog hops. Anyhoo, I’m especially excited about WeWriWa, because it involves sharing snippets of writing, published or unpublished, and since my search for an agent is about as successful as New Coke (if you’re under 40, ask your parents), these posts might be the only time anyone outside my critique group gets to read my work. For my first post, here are the first 10 sentences of my postapocalyptic short story, “Collateral Damage.” This story won first…

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    My short story, “Woe is Me, Poor Child, for Thee,” is published!

    December 27, 2021
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    January 27, 2024
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    December 7, 2022
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I’m off work this week, so I’ve been walking more. I saw these rock hearts on the Rillito River Park Trail here in #tucson and they made me smile.
My latest blog post includes more info about my interview on the Mysterious Goings-On podcast (link in bio). Host @alexginkc and I talk about getting started as a fiction writer, using short stories to advance your writing career, and lots more.
Seen at the Red Cross blood donation center in #tucson . I think they took a little too much from this guy. Seriously, give blood if you can. You might save a life.
The Bellagio outdid itself with this conservatory display. Simply stunning.
Stopover in #kingmanaz on our way to Vegas. #route66
Buds on fishhook barrel cactus in #orovalley #arizona. So much beauty in the #sonorandesert
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