Monthly Archives: May 2011

SPRING FEVER — I HAZ IT!

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Sometimes the best thing you can do for your writing is to get out from behind the computer and visit dimensions of the world that don’t depend on high-speed internet.  I decided the other day, after more than a week … Continue reading

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NINJA SHOES IN JEOPARDY

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I really thought I was scraping bottom when I wrote a flash fiction piece while clamped onto my seat by my butt cheeks as my co-Ninja-assassin-driver swerved through dead-man curves at 60 miles per hour on our way to our … Continue reading

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“ONE-SHOT STORIES” BY TOBIAS S. BUCKELL

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With daily headlines of outrageous fortune raining down on authors who have seized the reins of their careers and become their own publishers, it is no small wonder that unknown writers are crawling out of the woodwork by the thousands … Continue reading

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IN WHICH I SWEAR TO MURGATROYD

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I have finally converted myself from a miserable-hanging-onto-consciousness-until-it-hurts lifelong night owl into an early-to-bedder/wee-early riser, so I am astonished to still be awake.  But when the Toddler hits the hay this early (8:11 p.m. — woot!), I gotta jump on … Continue reading

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FRIDAY NIGHT VINO

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It’s been a long week, ladies and jellybeans.  Let’s recap, shall we? Besides playing roustabout to a bunch of wishy-washy dinosaurs (“The dry ice won’t last forever, reptiles!”); applying baking soda poultices to a spider bite that just won’t go … Continue reading

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THIS HAPPY MAMA’S DAY

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This morning it rained, leaving the roses by the patio bejeweled in Nature’s finest.  It would have been a crime not to take their pictures, all dressed up in their Sunday best.  And just in time for Mother’s Day.  Well-wishing … Continue reading

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FRIDAY NIGHT VINO

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This Friday past, Marian brought over a 2009 Green Fin California Cabernet Sauvignon.  I think we both agreed that it was a bit dry for our taste, but it did the trick.  Plus, it has a very cool label. Usually … Continue reading

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IN A DRAMATIC TURN OF EVENTS…

…we are now way past our March/April goal of 100,000 words! A thousand thank-yous to skyraftwanderer, long-time reader and poetic force of nature, for your 11,728 words; my outrageously funny friend Midori, who donated 347 words; and to Courtney, our … Continue reading

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FINAL CALL FOR WORD COUNTS!

Last call…last call for alcohol!  I mean, word counts.  (Dang, that used to be my favorite thing to hear at the end of the night…erm, because I was working, not because I needed help to stop drinking. ) So here’s … Continue reading

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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: HOWARD ANDREW JONES

I first met Howard Andrew Jones in a small writer’s critique group back on CompuServe some 15 years ago.  Although we haven’t kept in close touch the past few years, I have always counted him a good friend.  When Howard … Continue reading

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