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Story Prompt Monday
Story (poem, novel, meandering) prompt for June 10 (Gemini, moonstone, birthday of Louis L’Amour and feast day of Olivia):
Your prompt - take a look at these faces and be inspired by one or more of them. When you click on the photos, see how the faces move, sparkle, express. “Ugly Models” is ironic; these people are gorgeous.
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Story Prompt Monday
I’m going to start doing this. Because.
Story (poem, novel, meandering) prompt for June 3 (Gemini, pearl, birthday of Allen Ginsberg and feast day of St. Clotilde):
Your prompt - anything part, phrase, sentence or word of this headline and/or its accompanying article -
Man Hunting for Pythons Finds Mysterious Jewelry
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Re: SFWA Bulletin 202
Dear Mike Resnick and Barry Malzberg,
I am not anonymous. I am not particularly young, either, so I guess I’m not one of the unnamed, insufficiently aged, Y-chromosome lacking horde you’ve created as a target for your smug, self-satisfied dialog in the latest issue of the SFWA Bulletin.
What I am is weary. Weary enough that I’m tempted not to ( Read more... ) -
Get Allegories of the Tarot AND Heaven's Bones
So Heaven’s Bones, the Victorian Ravenloft tie-in I wrote a few years back that’s filled with clockwork angels, insane gynocologists and all manner of weird stuff, is available in audio and e-book - but since it went out of print hard copies are hard to come by and are offered for ridiculous prices from Amazon affiliates. But now you Ravenloft ( Read more... ) -
Deborah Ross on Outlander and The Feathered Edge
A few years ago my friend and workshopping-mate, Sheila Finch, mentioned my name to editor and author Deborah Ross, who invited me to submit a story to a follow-up of the Lace and Blade anthologies. People familiar with my work know I tend to get a little, well, weird, and more than a little dark, so I was thrilled to get a chance to try my hand ( Read more... ) -
Lovecraft eZine and CondorCon
There was a strange passenger now, not in the cabins or the tiny cells, but in the hold, in the big reinforced cage deep inside Midnight’s Lady’s iron and steel bowels that was sometimes used when a man got drunk and nasty. Midnight’s Lady met a small vessel with one lone ghostlight burning at its prow. There was much low-voiced, urgent talking and ( Read more... ) -
On the badness of SF poetry
On the Amazing Stories Blog, Paul Cook’s posted an entry titled Why Science Fiction Poetry is Embarrassingly Bad, which (predictably, given the title) fairly critical of Science Fiction poetry as a genre. There’s lot to be critical about much SF poetry*, certs, but what’s problematic about his essay is that, as he says, he’s looking at SF poetry in ( Read more... ) -
The House of Forever Reviewed at Amazing Stories
At the Amazing Stories blog, Diane Severson Mori has posted a rather wonderful review of my poetry chapbook, The House of Forever, along with a most excellent reading of one of the poems from the book.
Also, "Beside Calais" from Strange Horizons has made the Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List, along with some other short fiction that makes me ( Read more... ) -
Catwoman
I loved Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in Batman Returns, and Genevieve Valentine really nails why. -
inkscrawl Submissions Open Friday
This Friday, February 1, submissions will open for issue 6 of the short-form speculative poetry magazine, inkscrawl. I invite any and all to submit speculative (i.e.: having some fantastic, science fictional, or mythic flavor) poetry 10 lines and under.
Please note that is issue has the theme of Journeys. I’m looking for journeys outward and inward ( Read more... )