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Born and raised in Nebraska, Merry Muhsman is sometimes a fantasy writer, sometimes a nonfiction writer, sometimes a flash fiction writer. Basically, she’s a writer of a lot of styles. She reads a lot of different styles, too, which often influence her writing. As Forest Gump once said, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” And so is the case of this site. Merry still lives on a farm with her husband and son, a dog and lots of cats.

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  • Vanessa’s Art

    Today, I’m introducing you to Vanessa’s main characters. Are they good? Are they evil? Are they a little bit gray? You have to read the books to decide. Vanessa, tell me about how you created this artwork? It reminds me of classic fantasy when the artwork had depth and meaning and not just a pretty…

  • Guest Blogger: Vanessa Finaughty

    Read a chapter from her new fantasy book Wizards of Ends: Dark Creature, Chapter 1 I am so excited to share with you the work of a writer friend of mine. Vanessa and I met over a decade ago through a critique group called Critters. She lives halfway across the world in South Africa. She’s…

  • Dancing Queen

    Spider Log: 9.2025.6 I shiver. The sensation trickling down my body into the tips of my legs. I scurry across the ground before the chill freezes me into place, my legs fold up and I flop over like Aunt Delores. Now she was something to behold. Her tan legs tipped with a little black and…

  • Meeting the Bug Busters

    Meeting the Bug Busters I recruit my childhood babysitters to help me fight the spider crisis. Spider Log: 09.2025.5 I arrived early to The Drunken Rooster. The local bar was quiet this afternoon. The dark intricate wood beams and black metal patterned ceiling cast the place in infinite shadows. Dim indoor lighting only added to…

  • Government Intervention

    The answer from the government finally came, but is it the answer I was looking for? Spider Log: 08.2025.4 I haven’t been in the office for a week, but fate was calling me back to the room. A few days ago, I believed the letter from the government had finally arrived in the form of…

  • He got the mail

    Spider Date: 08.2025.3 I had devastating news today via text. My husband picked up the mail on the way home. But we haven’t had a frost yet! Panic skittered like lighting under my skin. The spider probably had babies by now in the mailbox. I didn’t even want to think about how long babies incubate…

  • I made peace with a spider

    The day I made Mel Robbins proud and Let Them. Spider date: 07.2025.2 I bounced in the house (which is not easy for a woman my age), and I announced to everyone who had ears, “I have overcome!” My husband sat in his chair, scrolling through Facebook on his iPad. “Good day?” “Yes, I made…

  • A new spider species causes a national emergency for me

    Spiders: the final enemy in my mailbox. These are the stories of a Nebraska farmwife terrified of spiders. Her mission is to avoid getting the mail until the second frost. Her mission is to avoid spiders at all cost, seek out new ways to avoid them and to boldly never open the mailbox until winter.…

  • I’m going on sabbatical

    I’m going on sabbatical. Time frame is to be determined, but I’m done getting the mail from the mailbox. You see, there’s not just mail in my mailbox. There’s black creatures lurking in the mailbox, building their sticky sacks where their thousands of children live. And the worst part of these creatures? They jump. I…

  • I didn’t win, and that’s a good thing

    Closed doors, open doors and waiting for that one “yes” I didn’t win, and that’s a good thing About a month ago, I learned I was honorable mention in a writing contest. When I got the news, I did the happy dance, jumped up and down like I was on a pogo stick and told…