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The Sloth’s Pawprint, Fiction

I have a magic To Do list. It’s not as much fun as it sounds. The discovery was everything one could have wished for in a magical adventure. I was traveling in the appropriately exotic foreign country. I went for a walk. Got lost. Stumbled on the archetypical small shop in a small alley. IContinue reading “The Sloth’s Pawprint, Fiction”

The Sixteen, Fiction

Words Another one that started out as a question on a blog post [Ring, Bridge]. Well, not really a question. But a post that left room for questions. In The Errant Moon: Very specific shout-out, the author attempts to reestablish contact with one person. The rest of us were left to twiddle our thumbs.Continue reading “The Sixteen, Fiction”

Mood On Monday, Pondering The Moment

Thoughts As custodians of the future, it behooves us to continue our documentation of this historical moment [Whither, Ugly]. The broadest global events are made up of individual moments, individual decisions, individual actions. Therefore, recording our situations as they occur in the flux of time creates the sine qua non of primary sources. WithContinue reading “Mood On Monday, Pondering The Moment”

Moonrats, Fiction Fragment II

Script for page one of a graphic novel. Page Layout Three standard rectangular frames. One large, half to 2/3 of page. Two small frames underneath. The margins around the frames are illustrated with a design that represent the lunar surface. As the location of the action changes from page to page, the design in theContinue reading “Moonrats, Fiction Fragment II”

The Mood On Monday, The Ugly Bits

Thoughts A pingback from The Errant Moon (Waves hi!) led me to Imperfect Patience: Oral History. In the post, the author points out that “Publicity shots … always show pretty faces.” They talk about the need to chronicle the ugly as well as the pretty. “According to Landdeck, We are at least thirty yearsContinue reading “The Mood On Monday, The Ugly Bits”

Moonrats, Fiction Fragment

Words Team Leader: Do you know what a Lunar Liaison does? Disgruntled Team Member: Yeah, she watches the machinery and obsesses about how much I shit. Team Leader: “The shitting oversight is so that your colon doesn’t shut down the first time it has to process a steak in earth gravity. But that’s notContinue reading “Moonrats, Fiction Fragment”

Warts And All, Contest Entries & Fragmentary Fiction

Words Writing & Writing About Writing General These are my last contest entries for the foreseeable future. 1) I have a tendency to get interested in too many things. One tweet is small, but too many niggling drains on one’s concentration add up to distraction. I am trying to get better at maintaining focusContinue reading “Warts And All, Contest Entries & Fragmentary Fiction”