Perhaps foolishly, I have decided at the last minute to do a daily fiction project this year. I’ve done them before but I wrote flash fiction stories. This year, I started with my (relatively newfound) tradition of rereading Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October and went, “I am…totally jealous of that.” So. I […]
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The sin of gluttony comes calling for Dr. Hope Sze at Montreal’s first Dragon Boat Festival, as she volunteers for an unusual eating contest. Hope Sze is a creation of a friend of mine, emergency physician Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes, also known as Melissa Yi. Something you should know about Melissa: she is fast. She thinks
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Please note, I’m in the mood for horror stuff, so the Midjourney prompts from now until, well, November may be a bit gory! The Ooze Test. This is a report on a thought experiment I was working on earlier, that is, how to handle people who kind of just “oozed” into my life and tried
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Home Fires by Gene Wolfe is a…Gene Wolfe book. I’m not sure how to describe either the book or my experience of reading it in any other way. (Long-time Gene Wolfe readers, please note that this is my first time through.) Inability to describe a Gene Wolfe book is par for the course, though. Gene Wolfe
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Turning borrowed time into time worth living. Side quest. Me: I haven’t weighed myself in a couple of months, I know I shouldn’t base my self-image on my weight but come on, I’ve been dancing hard and working on situps and shit… Also me: Back up seven pounds. Also also me: It HAS to be
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USF Botanic Gardens and a prayer to bees…masking versus translation I mostly just need to clear out my brain. Stuff built up. I woke up this morning to another house dream.–One of the reasons I like haunted house stories is that I’ve been having house dreams for a while now. Decades? About the time that
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And a thought experiment about “nonlinear autism” I’m writing this as I’m working on formatting a novel that I had backlogged from [cough] 2016, YOUR SOUFFLE MUST DIE. I have a number of pain in the ass tasks to accomplish, but if I only focus on those things today, I’ll lose my mind. I probably
Adventures du jour! (August 31, 2023): Triggery video game deets Read More »
And a new novel that came out, YOUR SOUFFLE MUST DIE! First, here’s the link to my new novel, YOUR SOUFFLE MUST DIE: https://books2read.com/your-souffle-must-die It’s a cooking cozy mystery, very cute, that goes more than a little off the rails. Don’t read if you dislike weird food. … Side Quest: August 25 – “You’re crazy.”
Side Quests (Aug 25 & 30, 2023): Crazy; triggery video game Read More »
What makes for safe spaces? What makes people feel safe? What is safety, relatively speaking? I didn’t grow up with a sense of safety. My world revolved around keeping certain people happy from a very young age, and around finding ways to step between certain people and those who needed protection more than I did–which
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I have a new release available! A culinary cozy mystery novel (that is, a mystery novel sort of in the style of Miss Marple and Murder She Wrote, with cooking) called YOUR SOUFFLÉ MUST DIE. The print books are proofing–but the ebook is available now! … REVENGE IS BEST SERVED FOR DESSERT. With her first
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