I write things. Sometimes people print them.
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May 22
Just signed the contract, so it's as official as it'll ever be until the issue is physically on the shelf*: My story "Chi Rho Lake Luau Album 1958" was just taken at Prairie Schooner!
Celebrating thematically by traveling the entirety of the Oregon Trail and dying of dysentery.
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"On cosmic timescales, every object in the universe may be turned into a sphere of pure iron" is something you expect to read in one of the pre-Socratics, not on the "Timeline of that far future" Wikipedia page.
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Literary journals used to have such fantastic names and cover artwork. I wanna publish in Ghosts
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
June 12, 1944
ALT P1- SLUGGO MEETS UP WITH NANCY SLUGGO: LOOK... MR. FRAMMIS GAVE ME A BUNCH OF OLD HORROR MAGAZINES NANCY:WOW! P2-NANCY: LET'S OPEN A BUSINESS SELLING SECOND-HAND HORROR MAGAZINES SLUGGO: GOOD IDEA P3- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE CALLING OUT THE NAMES OF THE MAGAZINES THEY ARE SEEKING NANCY AND SLUGGO: MURDER --- HORROR ---GHOSTS --- MONSTERS --- SPOOKS --- UNBEKNOWNST TO NANCY AND SLUGGO, THEIR CALLING OUT THE MAGAZINE NAMES HAVE CAUSED SEVERAL POLICE OFFICERS TO RUN TOWARDS THEM TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON
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Bond is a spy the way Jeeves is a butler: he isn't one in the first place, but is so overwhelmingly famous for being one that he has actually become the primary referent of the term, and now the meaning of the word has shifted in the popular consciousness to describe what he does
Jun 13
has the James Bond series ever tried to properly grapple with the fact that Bond is less of a spy or even really a hero and is pretty evidently a hatchet man
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Reflection for short story writers: a short story has "gone viral" exactly four times in my life/the entire history of social media
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Conversely, if someone has a huge vocabulary and doesn’t mispronounce anything, BUT misspells them all, it means they learned exclusively through living dialectic
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Yeah, I remember him. He didn’t split into two different people until the retroactive Party Schism of the Democratic-Republican Party which in the current update was pushed back to the 1800s
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Jun 13
poets have written on this
Jun 12
To be fair geography is a bit more flexible than you would think on certain timescales. One century you’re right on the coastline and then down the line your harbor is miles inland.
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Jun 13
This photo perfectly captures the setting for my short story about a wacky road trip with a dying lover
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Jun 13
a usage that stands on the threshold between sense and nonsense
Jun 13
i am fighting a losing battle against the misuse of the word liminal
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Jun 13
"to compare ocean with wolf" sounds like some imaginary culture's version of "apples and oranges"
Jun 12
Ocean Vuong and Virginia Woolf, bit of an apples and oranges situation here
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Jun 13
So he painted them too short, that's all
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Jun 12
I like Hardy, but this feels less interesting/clever than most echo poems, the power of which more commonly comes of giving the repeated words or sounds a different meaning/context/dimension
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Jun 12
Almond, then chocolate
Jun 12
How do you eat chocolate-covered almonds?
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Jun 12
Hebrews 13:8
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A sphinx decorates this terracotta stand, which may have held floral or vegetal offerings. Greek, ca. 520 BCE. 26 cm H. The Met.
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Jun 12
Devastating good(?) news today: I finally reached out to a publisher I more-or-less assumed was ghosting me for three years and he immediately replied to say he had accepted the manuscript years ago and assumed *I* was ghosting *him* (I have no record of ever receiving a reply)
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Jun 12
I am still reeling from the sense of wasted time (and am not actually 100% sure if the book is even still accepted or not...)
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Jun 12
Writers! I say ye: Nudge your publishers! Nudge, nudge as if your lives depended on it!
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Jun 11
Obviously no contest with Rossetti on "serious literary merit," but as far as cleverness goes George Starbuck did a monorhyme sonnet where *every line ended with a different letter*. This was in the New Yorker! (Alas, their tolerance for light verse seems to have disappeared...)
Jun 8
No English poet can sustain a poem on a single rhyme like Christina Rossetti:
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