Two merry and dark stories for you this festive season!

What are your 2026 writing goals? Several writer contacts of mine are already talking about their goals for 2026. And even though I’m supposed to be ‘heads down’ on my gothic during November, their ideas for next year prompted me to start imagining my own objectives. Of course, I needed a place to capture my ideas--but that was easier said than done. You see, during my many years of corporate life, with structured processes and systems to identify, plan, and track objectives,