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• Floriography
  Of the two-dozen stories I penned while in my Ficly frenzy of Aught-Nine, this may be the one of which I was the most pleased. I've long had a somewhat vague curiosity reg
• The Street Sweepers
  I recently penned this short story at ficly.com, and it managed to attract some attention. It seems like a good jumping off point for me for a collection of urban fantasy
• Me Too Me Too
  After Ryan posted (and told me) about Ficly, and how it had opened the creative floodgates for him, 1024 characters at a time, I considered joining.At first, I didn't, but
• Stories Without End
  I recently found an outlet for creative writing, and I'm actually using it. "(Ficly)":ficly.com invites users to write 1,024-character (or less) stories. Each publi
• A Short Scene From SFO
  (Something I jotted down while waiting for a flight to Reno, with some later editing.) A pale young woman with auburn hair, a low-cut white shirt, and a careless sweater t
• Economies of Scales
  !/images/the_lizard_king.jpg( )! . Though this book's jacket notes the author was, among other indignities, "sprayed by a bird-eating tarantula" and "ejaculated on by a Be
• Spot. Spot Running. Running, Spot, Running.
  !/images/oscar_wao_cover_copy1.jpg( )! Ten thousand bucks for dropping subjects from sentences and not using quotation marks. I know there's more to the winner of this yea
• Around the Block
  !/images/2008-10/writers_block.jpg( )! The worst thing about being a writer is not being able to write. I mean being physically incapable of writing. Typically, lack of ti
• Neruda and Translation
  Now and then, I get in the mood to read poetry. It doesn't happen frequently, and my knowledge of poetry is minimal, so I definitely can't claim to be an expert or even an

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