So, I’m suddenly twenty eight years old. Also, it’s snowing out and apparently is not going to stop until I’m twenty nine. I should have prefaced that with the fact that I hate snow and it should all be melted and burned and burned again but alas, the moment is gone. So yes, the...
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This is what I want to do. I want to start a worldwide prepaid cellphone company where you get a certain number of minutes for using the company’s integrated “Strangerline” and talk to a complete stranger for a few minutes. Running low on cash and cellphone minutes? Dial “STRANGER” and you get credited one...
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We all leave a trace. Wherever he steps, whatever he touches, whatever he leaves, even unconsciously, will serve as a silent witness against him. Not only his fingerprints or his footprints, but his hair, the fibers from his clothes, the glass he breaks, the tool mark he leaves, the paint he scratches, the blood or...
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Bouncing around a fiction blog idea in my head. The setting is a dystopian near-future (a few decades ahead of us, no more) where the government requires all adult citizens to journal 250 words a day, six days a week. Required by law. The government frames it as a “grassroots evaluation of how they’re doing...
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Lightning rods in the shape of giant middle fingers pointed toward the heavens just to provoke god to try harder and harder to smite the shit out of us with his divine electricity, all to no avail. The current gets rerouted to our iPods and espresso makers and TiVos loaded with porn.
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Zombie-involved detective story zombies become fact of everyday life, cultural subset, subculture/counterculture type appendage have own bars, scene, authors, entertainment “Extreme dying is extreme living, man” “We’re no different than base jumpers or skydivers, except we don’t…nggg….pop the parachute. Undeath is our fucking reserve chute.” riff riff riff Detective searching for chick that loved that undead, jonesed for them -badge bunny...
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Good story, maybe short. Might be infodumping here or there. Not as much character development as I’d like, but should you develop a zombie? Is Smith the focus? evocative images here and there, mostly having to do with his emergence from the grave. Random riffing: Do zombies dream of brainy sheep? or undead sheep? “you all died. Everyone died. I’m...
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