6 days ago by Rancher

short story: Bra / Female, 1 ea. Mr. Cafferty, who managed the Patio Iguana apartments, thought that old John Ackers was stealing brassieres off the clothes line. But it wasn’t John, who hadn’t stolen anything since a couple of shoplifting adventures he had before the age of twelve, and who anyway w ...

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6 days ago by Dindy

I am reading Bloodwork by Michael Connelly. The main character in the book is a former FBI profiler, Terry McCaleb, on medical retirement from the Bureau after a heart transplant. It’s a good book and I’m enjoying it. One of the very minor storylines involves religion– McCaleb becomes involved with ...

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38 days ago by Cheril

Author Cheril N. Clarke examines love, self-loathing and dirty politics in her novel Losing Control. Toss in a closeted lesbian, a closeted gay man, a confused married woman, an angry husband and an ambitious backstabbing campaign volunteer and you’ll be glued to the pages of Losing Control for hour ...

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39 days ago by Lynsey May

When I was a kid my mum used to joke about how mercenary I was (normally when I’d demand payment for doing the ironing to be fair) so how has it got to the stage where I think I can honestly say I’m not in it for the money? Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to be able to write (creatively) for a living, ...

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41 days ago by b

The shovel came as a complete surprise. Of course she had always asked. Generally a recent trip to the store prompted the answer but this one just was not a gift off the toy aisle shelf. "So", she said, "what do you want for your birthday this year?" "I want a shovel", was his reply. The answer made ...

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70 days ago by Robert Lamb

"Hello, my name is Shiva and I'll be your harbinger of global destruction for the evening." (AP Photo/Sackler Gallery) So the other day, fellow blogger Marshall Brain posted a couple of YouTube videos about whether the world’s going to end in 2012. Naturally, this has led to a lot of discussion abou ...

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87 days ago by Caleb.J.Ross

Metafiction (see: “intertextual fiction”): self-referential fiction. A simple definition but one open to great possibilities. Think of the infinite mirror effect in that when two similar subjects are forced to reflect each other, self-commentary snowballs. For me, the pull started with Jorge Louis B ...

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99 days ago by inconvenientbody

One week ago (and some days) my son, Henry Rainer, started to talk–He started to babble, rather, and coo and gurgle and squeak and ahhhhhhhhh. It was as if a great dam of pent up sound burst, releasing a white wash torrent of baby talk. Little Rainer has been communicating with the world since the b ...

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127 days ago by bubblegumkitten

I read this book recently – and it doesn’t do any sort of reinventing the wheel, it doesn’t even necessarily tell you anything you don’t already know… What it does do, in a very very funny way, is remind you of all the mistakes that annoy you in other peoples fiction that are so easy to fall into wi ...

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160 days ago by ronkaplan

The Chicago Tribune ran this profile of Paretsky, creator of popular character V.I. Warshawski, and how she incorporates baseball and the Cubbies in her books. She wrote about Chicago’s unique brand of softball in one of her books.

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