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LJ Idol Week 10: so very not helpful
LJ Idol Week 11 ( Read more... ) -
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Hey, so, uh, I totally told myself I wasn't going to do this anymore unless I absolutely had to, but right now I'm in last place by a fair amount in this week's LJ Idol competition in my tribe, and the poll ends in like 24 hours, so if any of you liked my entry about the "Keep Calm and _____" meme and would like to throw me a vote, I would be so ( Read more... ) -
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The other day, I read Madeleine L’Engle’s Many Waters for the first time. I’d read the first three books in the Time Quintet, but when I was a kid I started Many Waters and was really bored almost immediately. Reading it as an adult, I wasn’t bored, but I was confused, because she decided to take on the topic of Noah and the flood and yet dodged ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 8: "Yes, and"
LJ Idol Week 8
Topic: "Yes, and"
Keywords: dialogue, marital disharmony, hole-digging, fiction
Rating: R-rated for sexual references and a few incidences of Very Bad Language
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Man, I am getting annoyed at Switched at Birth. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, it’s an ABC Family show about, yes, two teenage girls who were switched at birth, and most people look at the title and network and assume it’s awful. I don’t blame them, either. But for its first few seasons it was the best take on disability issues that I ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 7: "No True Scotsman"
LJ Idol Week 7
Topic: "No True Scotsman"
Keywords: Asperger Syndrome, autism, short story, teen
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A guy just came into Burger King when I was eating there and asked people at each table if they had money for him to buy a hamburger. Everyone turned him down, naturally. Everyone always does. I had no cash smaller than a $5 so I told him no as well, adding for some bizarre reason that I only had a debit card -- I guess so he wouldn’t think I was ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol, Week Five: Build a Better Mousetrap
Short story for LJ Idol this week. I don't even know when I last wrote original fiction. Jumping back in with both feet, because there's no other way to do it, I guess.
Topic: "Build a Better Mousetrap"
Trigger warning: [select black bar to view] mental illness (bipolar disorder)
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