Ambitious Bacteria Making In-Roads

Speculative Science

Have you ever noticed how lots of ‘futuristic earth’ sf stories and some fantasy stories have these long, and virtually indestructable, roads winding their way through them?  Left behind by a fallen civilization and reeking of mystery, tourists of fantasy-land and visitors from space are just grateful for the smooth traveling. Well, the road just got

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Submission Milestone

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I sent out two more stories today, and noted that this brings my total active submssions up to ten.  Not an earth-shattering record, but a new high for me.  Now if only I could get the other twenty or so stories waiting on my hard drive out the door before these start coming in!

Craft – Truth wrapped in a Joke

Crafting Pieces, Just for Laughs

Ryan stopped as he walked by the kitchen door.  Was that the smell of pizza?  He took two steps back, so he could see into the room. In the middle of the table was a box of Meat Lovers pizza.  Kyle sat on the kitchen counter with a large wedge in his hand, while Todd was leaned over the table to get

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My Place of Importance

Home in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

My five-year-old is learning to buckle her own seatbelt reliably, and is also eternally curious, so she asked me what would happen if she didn’t buckle up. I explained that I could be fined, lose my license, or even possibly go to jail. (Maybe a bit extreme, but I wanted her to buckle up). She thought about that

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When Your Writing is a Crime

Rumblings

The first of the fallout from the Va Tech shooting has hit the field of writing.  A high school student in Cary, Ill. was arrested for a creative writing essay that his teacher found ‘disturbing’.  The essay has not been released, so far as I know, but some of the content has been reported in

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Akismet Filter

Blogging

Okay, so hopefully I’ve finally solved my problems with spam comments.  It turns out that Akismet (thanks again for the recommendation, Jordan) was sitting in my account waiting for me to turn it on all along.  Ye know, I’m finding that sometimes it’s a good thing to read those blabbery notices sent when you start up

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Knight Life Review

The Bookshelf

An arthurian urban fantasy by Peter David, Knight Life is about the return of King Arthur to modern day New York, and his subsequent political campaign for the mayorship. I wouldn’t say it was a can’t-put-it-down read, but once I set it down I was sure to look around and find I’d picked it up again.  The

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Planet of the Ultimate Surf

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Jordan’s got a blog discussion of a new planet found around a red dwarf star “Gliese 581”. The thought of a giant standing wave circling the planet has me intrigued–can you imagine catching that wave?  And how far you could ride it?  What a rush!