New in .fiction: "Jesus Sends You Flowers Every Spring." This is a piece I wrote for one of my fiction workshops in undergrad a long time ago, and I was never completely satisfied with the way it turned out. I like the ideas I worked with in the story, but I could never write the second half of the story in a way that I felt did justice to the story in my mind. It's not that I don't like the story, but it's not something I'd consider sending out to get published.

In a way I kind of don't like how I don't put my best-of-the-best work up here, but there was a reason why I stopped publishing fiction and poetry on here after I got my first two poems published. I still want to keep alive the possibility of making a living off of my poetry and fiction, and publishers just aren't going to be interested in attempting to make money off of work that's already been published for free, particularly in a channel with such wide-ranging distribution as the Internet. I've been devoting much more time to writing lately, though, and I hope that I'll be able to keep writing here even after I find a good job. I also hope that I'll still be able to keep posting fiction and poetry up here as well, without ruining any potential chances for publication.