Elizabeth Guilt

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Writer of miscellaneous fiction.

Profile pic is headshot of me (white woman, long brown hair, looking slightly shiftily at the camera), with vague urban greenery in the background.

Websitehttps://www.elizabethguilt.com
My version of sticking it to the man: I am looking up publishers and author names on Amazon, so I can email my Christmas-present book order to my local independent book shop.

FOUR DAYS LEFT TO ENTER! 350 words, $35, be part something historic, the 8TH ANNUAL show!

https://weirdchristmas.com/2025/10/30/announcing-the-eighth-annual-weird-christmas-flash-fiction-conthology/

Announcing the EIGHTH Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology!

Yes, the (non) contest is alive, and, yes, it’s late. It’s been a rough year, and I’ve lost a lot of the time for REAL work because of all that half-ass work that actually pays. I had to figure out…

"I Am the NY Times Connections Puzzle and I Am the Reason Everyone Is Angry" by Pardis Parker has quite made my morning...

https://electricliterature.com/i-am-the-ny-times-connections-puzzle-and-i-am-the-reason-everyone-is-angry-by-pardis-parker/

The NY Times Connections Destroyed Society and We're Fine With It - Electric Literature

Flash fiction by Pardis Parker

Electric Literature

In case you missed it, we're nearly a week into #drabbletober. Daily microfiction episodes, so tiny you can more or less listen to a whole one while you brush your teeth...

https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober (or look for "Drabbletober" wherever you listen to podcasts).

Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction — Elizabeth Guilt

The podcast of tiny speculative fiction. Brand new drabbles—stories of exactly 100 words—every day during October, and monthly bonus episodes the rest of the year.

Elizabeth Guilt
Today's hot take... The principal driver of amateur podcasting is legitimising the construction of blanket forts.
Waiting on a station. Someone is at the free range piano, alternating the likes of Rondo alla Turca with Darude's Sandstorm, and I bloody love it.

Ooh, new story! "The Bringer of Opportunities" appears in issue 190 of Black Cat Weekly.
https://blackcatweekly.com/b/1a357

If you've never encountered Black Cat, it's shockingly good value - an enormous amount of content every week and less than $3 per issue!

It's that time of year again! Just a few hours left to back The Longlist Anthology, featuring a selection of stories from the Hugo awards' longlist. It's produced by the people from @diabolicalplots and is usually a cracking read...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diabolicalplots/the-long-list-anthology-volume-9?ref=thanks-copy
Since then, I've often used that method for finding a title. My recent novelette "A Mortuary For Songs" was named like that - it's how one of the characters describes a record shop.

#PennedPossibilities 633 — How did you choose the title for your story, and what significance does it hold for you?

Many years ago, when Twitter was still not a cesspool that is somehow also on fire, I did a beta-read-swap with someone I met there. He liked my story but hated the title, and suggested pulling out a line of the story to use as the title (that was "Head In The Grave, Listening").