The heat batters. The sun beats down relentlessly on my olive drab uniform, baking me like a potato in foil. A breeze blows, but instead of refreshing, it feels like my face is in front of a furnace vent. The heat touches. Scrub brushes reach up and touch me on the shoulder. A steady hum […]
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In Grade Seven, our classroom had a bookshelf with a small collection of completely random books we could read when we were caught up on our work, or had nothing better to do. I don’t remember what the title was, but there was one book on the shelf about the Battle of Britain, and invariably […]
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A death sentence is supposed to mean you die. So when I woke up after my execution, I was right fuckin’ confused. The gut-kick from the asshole in the radiation suit didn’t help. Shoveling. Apparently a death sentence doesn’t mean they kill you; it means you shovel radioactive shit until you can’t. I’d swear I […]
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I’m coming to the Game of Thrones party late. I’ve been a fantasy and sci-fi reader my whole life, but for some reason I never picked up on this series, either when written or when HBO started the TV series. So when my brother-in-law dumped the first four paperbacks on my table, the 4,000 pages […]
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One of my appointment podcasts is Scriptnotes (a podcast about screenwriting and things interesting to screenwriters). It’s very entertaining and has a lot of great insight into not only screenwriting, but writing in general. In a November episode, co-host Craig Maizin made an observation about poetry I’ve probably heard before, but never so bluntly, and […]
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