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Jul.23.2008
The girls are asleep on Friday night when Maxwell injures himself, a deep accidental cut to the base of his left thumb with an Exacto knife. He grabs the skin together with a washcloth, feeling himself go white. He walks into the living room where Paula reads on the couch. "I'll be back in a...
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Jul.22.2008
If you've read my blog entries, you may have seen my post about 'click' moments, and how food is important, because knowing what a character eats, and whether they cook, go out, or grab a pizza helps me understand them.And if I don't understand them, I can't write them. For me, without well-...
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Jul.09.2008
Rom drops Dawn off at the downtown San Andreas bus station already past her bedtime and the bus leaves late; it's after eleven when she boards and settles down for the long overnight to Los Angeles. The seat a relief after the sullen anger of the dusky station. She unfastens her sandals, folds her...
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Jul.03.2008
My short story The Spectacle has just gone up on Identity Theory, an excellent online lit journal. You can read it and check them out here. There's a lot of interesting stuff on their site, including a recent interview with Dagoberto Gilb, my favorite author of stories about construction workers,...
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Jun.30.2008
Emily was somewhere between eighty and one hundred and twelve, depending on which website you'd care to believe. The dementia had been mild, just some pacing and staring into space, nothing of much concern. Two weeks later she wasn't eating, drinking or sleeping. She paced for hour upon hour,...
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Jun.29.2008
I love it when I write something fictional, and then find out it's true. Was it something I overheard, or read, or the Universe whispered in my ear?
I've posted a short story, "The Baby Slot," written before the law was passed in some states allowing a mother to relinquish her newborn at...
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Jun.12.2008
I've just posted an oldie but a (hopefully) goodie. I wrote this story a while ago... shortly after getting back from my first trip to London, and shortly after getting through Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's last novel.
Destiny Calling
It was also written as a release for having finished my first (...
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Jun.03.2008
I love to read out loud, and I love being read to. We come from thousands of years of oral tradition, and it's deep in our souls. Hearing stories is how we learn. Hearing stories takes us places.
I love hearing short stories performed on the radio. I love going to readings (though I don't much care...
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Jun.01.2008
What is it like to love an elephant? What is it like to have one in the house? And why would you give him whatever he wants?
I've just posted "Whatever He Wants," a short story of mine -- please read and enjoy. It's a contemporary retelling of the children's book Babar, The Little...
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May.30.2008
I went to BayCon over Memorial Weekend. It was a very fruitful and fun event. And long...four days! I met lots of great authors, sat on four panels and hosted a Broad Universe reading. Please read all about it on my main blog here: http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.com.
The first day there, I...
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