There are some names that are supposed to last forever. Names that you grow up with, or that come to you at a significant point in your life and change your direction. I remember when I learned that Charles Schultz had died; the guy who had created Peanuts was supposed to last forever because I’d [...]
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Just in case you weren’t keeping track, Daikaijuzine reopens to submissions tomorrow.
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First, I was happy to see that Tolstoy is still churning out books; in the "New Fiction" section, I found War and Peace. I guess it was a sequel or something.
Second, from the cover of Rogue Angel: The Soul Stealer: "Fearing the unknown can be scary." Um. Well, yeah, I suppose it would be. Except [...]
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So, after seeing The Happening with my wife and my good friend Dale Emery, I drove home, stopping at the Colonial Heights library on Stockton Boulevard on the way. I was listening to Dreams from my Father, by Barack Obama, and feeling very proud of myself for being a liberal Democrat who supports an African [...]
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I admit that I put off finding a hotel until pretty close to the last minute, so maybe I should have expected that things wouldn’t go perfectly well. Still, when I first spoke with the front desk clerk to make my reservation, the fact that I had this conversation should have alerted me that the [...]
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A word I vaguely remembered last night from my high school English classes:
e·ruc·ta·tion (ĭ-rŭk-tā’shən, ē’rŭk-) n. the act or an instance of belching.
And another word that was brought up at work a couple of weeks ago:
con·tu·ma·cious (kon-too-mey-shuhs, -tyoo-) adj. stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
We discussed this at our write-in last night. One [...]
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I may have sold another story!
Details forthcoming. But in honor of the occasion I have switched my site’s theme back to the "Classic Monsters" theme. It’s appropriate.
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I submitted my newest short story, "Padma", to my writers’ group last night. It went over very well, which honestly surprised me. I was convinced that it sucked, especially the end; and yet the end got the most positive feedback overall. Some of the descriptions that were bandied about were "chilling", "scary", and "superb", though [...]
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One of the things I really miss about my college days was my near constant exposure to people of other cultures and nations. Within my relatively broad circle of friends I regularly got to hang with people from France, Ethiopia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Ecuador, India, Mexico, and so on. And, of course, there [...]
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It’s nice when people who have been missing for 42 years are finally found. Especially when they’re found inside their apartment. It’s sad when they’re dead, though.
It’s been well observed that one of the downsides of being a writer is that many of the outrageous and bizarre situations that come up in real life, like [...]
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What’s the best way to tell an old friend and housemate of yours that you killed her in the opening scene of your new novel?
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Spam subject line of the day: "Prevent your organism from diseases!" The Dada-esque nature of this subject line is nearly perfect. It almost makes sense on a number of different levels, but once you think you’ve figured it out, you realize that you haven’t gotten it at all. This truly is the Platonic ideal of [...]
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California is now the second state in the US to legalize gay marriage.
Today I am damn proud to be a Californian.
Gay sex does squick me out, to be honest. How in the world can anyone, male OR female, find men attractive, let alone find the idea of sex with them at all appealing? Big, sweaty, [...]
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Every now and then when I visit my parents I like to dig through my old report cards. It’s kind of interesting, looking back and seeing my academic progress through the years. I definitely had my ups and downs, good years and bad, which makes me astonishingly average.
What struck me most, though, was the one [...]
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This is a research question for a new story that I’m working on. So please indulge me, if I’m not being too offensive.
When you notice another woman, particularly a woman who might be a romantic rival or someone who might somehow threaten your steady relationship with your partner of choice, what physical traits about her [...]
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