Archive for March, 2007
Icon versus I Met Him Last Week
By David Niall Wilson
Recently, following the news, I’ve been reintroduced to a concept that I think about now and then, and I thought I might bring it to the group for dissection. The idea is a simple one. The characters we write about, no matter how much of ourselves or our experience we [...]
REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PASTE
By Dick Hill
Forget the madeleine, it was the taste of paste that brought me back. Not even the taste of paste, but the memory of the taste of paste. Staples is where we buy all our business supplies, mostly paper and blank cd’s for sending off wave files of our latest job. We also do [...]
We Are Our Parents Now
By Wayne Allen Sallee
In the spring of 1996, at my granddaddy Grover’s funeral, I turned to my cousin Denise and said “We are our parents now.” My grandmother had died in 1992, and my point was that the generations had shifted. [...]
Spartans! Tonight, We Write An Essay!
Let us consider for a moment 300. Technically, I suppose, it should have been called 301 – if you add the Spartan king Leonidas to his 300-man bodyguard, you get the prime number. It lacks, however, a certain symmetry, and besides, one of them did wander off at the end, so if you’re counting corpses, [...]
Handling Rejection
By Janet Berliner
Once upon a time, when I was a lot younger, I came up with a term to describe how I feel about astrology. I am an astrological agnostic. It would seem more sane to say that I’m a non-believer, but the fact is that I’m too close to the classic description of [...]
Things I Think I Know
Justine Musk
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People who live in mostly-glass houses rarely throw stones. They’re not that stupid. They do, however, have to deal with the small corpses of birds who fly into the windows. There is a lesson in this, but I’ll be damned if I know what it is.
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I read once that there are two kinds of [...]
For the Sake of Appearance
by Jeffrey Thomas
In about three hours, my friend Clint LeDuc will pick me up to drive me out to the South Shore Plaza Mall, where at the B. Dalton Bookseller from 2 pm to 5 pm I’ll be autographing copies of my new novel DEADSTOCK – or not, if no one is keen on buying [...]
Ain’t No Fun Waitin’ Round to Be a Millionaire
“The following is a true story. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.” - Bon Scott, AC/DC.
Major props to Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott, who have “Been there, done that,” as they say.
For once I’m not going to talk about me. There’s this other writer, you may or may [...]
Leavitt Learning Part Two
By
Richard Steinberg
“This is about you.
“It’s not about me, it’s not about your teachers, it’s about you. It’s about you becoming powerful. It’s about you being noticed, and you all forcing the world to listen to you.
“There’s only one way you can do that.
“That’s by learning how to take your thoughts, combine [...]
The Writes of Spring
by Jeff Mariotte
Spring came to the Flying M Ranch before I was quite ready for it. One minute, nighttime temperatures were in the 20s, and the next daytime highs were in the 80s. It’s a heat wave; it’ll break, they tell us, in the next few days, and then there’ll be some more [...]
