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Ytown on Stage
Last night at the Stage was just the most wonderful experience. There were so many people there, so much talent and creativity and expression, and so much of it just really really good. My friend Brooke does the most amazing things for this city and I sometimes wonder if enough people actually understand it. I… Read more
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I’ll be there.
Stop by and have some fun this Friday at The Stage at the Oakland Center for the Arts. I’ll be reading a short short story called “The Flood” (which is being published in Foundation’s 100th issue this August), and there’ll be comedians, dramatic monologues, crazy improvised hallucinogenic music-video imitations, tap dancing, independent film trailer releases, poetry,… Read more
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Work in progress meme
Via Ms. Bond, a work in progress meme: Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven’t gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven’t gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us… Read more
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Infamous people from Youngstown
The title of this entry is also the terms someone typed into a search engine today, which led them to stumble into my journal here. I almost choked laughing, then typed the terms into Google myself and not only was my website here a results entry, it was the first one. I suppose this is one… Read more
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The Language of “The Language of Moths”
I’ve been asked to write a short essay on “The Language of Moths” for the Nebula Awards, which has placed me in the awkward position of talking about one of my own stories, which I don’t usually do, or like to do, for various reasons. This is my first stab at it, though. *Revised with… Read more
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