Cracking Eggs

May Interview Prompt — So much fun to look inside

Cracked Eggs — in the process of making meringue with my daughter — by Laurie Perez

[1] What did you like to do most when you were 10? They say that this hobby is likely what brings you the most joy in life — is this something you still do?
Stacking books to bring home from the library and tearing through them. Writing — diaries, poems, book reports, poems, LETTERS to pen pals around the world (Ireland, Vietnam, England, France, Turkey, Canada… list goes on. I LOVED mailing and receiving letters.) Am I still doing this? Dear reader…

[2] What genres do you write? Why do you choose to write with these types of structures? What’s attractive about them?
Speculative Fiction. Many confuse this with dystopian sci-fi, but genuine Spec looks into profound “what ifs” and explores what a subtle inversion or paradigm shift could mean for characters and their intimate / grand potentials, affecting the world at large.

[3] What’s your all-time favourite childhood TV show?
Star Trek. Twilight Zone. The Tonight Show — because I got to stay up late, watching it from start to finish whenever I stayed over at Aunt Rene’s. SNL with my dad — banned at home w/my mom. Oddly, bucking her mandate and letting me watch it when I stayed with him was one of the more parental things he did. “Mom won’t let me watch it.” | “Well, you’re with me…