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August 31, 2009
- I have a feeling there’ll be some disagreement from the Editor community that a collection of short stories should be a haphazard free-for-all, but that’s why indie publishing is so great. I do plan to eventually write a collection that has a connecting thread, and I hope to publish it traditionally. But Carol’s Aquarium is exactly what I want it to be–a ...
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June 28, 2009
- (As 14 of you may know from my previous post, I magically created actor/singer Jared Leto out of thin air with my supernatural abilities, only to send him running because of my rudeness and general lack of caring. Well, last week, Jared forgave me and asked me out to dinner. I happily obliged.)He wanted to be called "Shaun" for obvious reasons: so people wouldn't hear me saying ...
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April 3, 2009
- ACT ONEHe was small, a Japanese Napoleon. His pal had a bald patch like a monk. The Japanese was on the voice treadmill, the monk was silent, listening, like a vow. Expensive scotch was ordered, Napoleon asked to see the bottle. I left it there. And forgot about it. They went to the jukebox and loaded it up with heavy metal, music not to listen to at 1.30am. I yelled last call. And remembered ...
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March 2, 2009
- I'm currently enrolled in Creative Caffeine, an online writing community organized by Janis Cooke Newman. Basically, you wake with a "prompt" in your email inbox. This prompt is the subject of your writing that morning. You write about it, and then send a copy to Janis and to your assigned partners that week for critique.Last Friday, our prompt was to write something that ...
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February 7, 2009
- "Love is not an act based on conditions. Love is the condition all other acts are based on. Love for our Creator. Love for others. Love for ourselves." Courage of FearIf I remember correctly it was early in the morning and I was just finishing up with the details of chapter three in Courage when the phone rang. On the other end was a woman I had been working with (I met this woman ...
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June 24, 2008
- I love exploring my darker side--this piece could have the alternate title "Why Steve should never eat pizza late at night and fall asleep after looking at naughty XXX websites."Just kidding...no, no...not really. (sigh)Read on, reader! nyctalopia intrusive, evil hour,an auger against all;circadian rhythmsdissipating tenebrous vim, defiant, adjacentto the natural ...
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June 24, 2008
- I wrote this for some girl a long time ago--and I gave it to her and I don't think she ever really appreciated it...probably explains why I made a better choice and went with "old Faithful" (you know who you are :B)It's still a really good poem though--and I even cock-block one of my friends in it with because he was too cheap to buy this girl roses...live and learn, right?Fun ...
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