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Blog &Clarion &Fiction | 25 Sep 2009

A Lot of Good News

To begin, other people’s good news: First, and long run most important, Mary Anne had a baby!  Howdy, Anandan.  Welcome to the world. Paul Berger sold one of his Clarion stories, “Small Burdens” to Strange Horizons.  It should be showing up next year in the Spring, and it is a marvelous piece of work. Meghan [...]

Fiction | 09 Sep 2009

“Advertising at the End of the World” by Keffy Kehrli

Keffy’s last publication was in the print magazine Sybil’s Garage, so I couldn’t link to it.  But this one is online at Apex Magazine.  This was another of Keffy’s Clarion stories, and has one of the best first lines that showed up that summer.  It is also, as so many of his stories are, suffused [...]

Blog &Books &Fiction | 13 Jul 2009

Stuff I’m Doing and Reading: A Miscellany

So I’m paying hosting costs for this site, right?  I bought a domain name and everything.  I should do something with it.  Here’s what I’m doing right now: I’m in a bar, lurking in corners with my laptop and munching tiny hamburgers.  Creepy and delicious!  Even more exciting than what I’m doing right now: things [...]

Fiction &Health | 02 Apr 2009

Know Your Foe: TNF-alpha

The following is a classified communique, smuggled across the blood/brain barrier from counter-insurgency leaders in the cortex. ————— *URGENT MESSAGE FOR PARTISANS OF THE DEFENDERS OF THE DIGESTIVE TISSUES* It’s been a long battle.  No one knows better than we do how entrenched and seemingly unstoppable are the rogue forces within the immune system that [...]