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I was angry when we had that fight, too. Our last fight, though I didn’t know that at the time. What did you expect me to say? You come in late and you’re bloody and filthy, and you tell me some story about “the fey,” and “faeries.” About the fey and our family and a war. You said, “I have to go, Mom. The Unseelie Court has taken the Southern Provinces, and only our family’s bloodline can save the High Ones.” It makes no sense. Those are things out of stories, out of books. I just want to know, Amanda—in what universe did you think I would not ask you what drugs you were on?

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Read “No Return Address” by Sigrid Ellis.

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Millionaires, we presume, and we agree that we hate them.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Read “Wedding Night” by Rebecca Makkai.

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stealing lighters from the Shell

Saturday, November 27, 2010

I’ve been busy today sending out submissions and lining up Seven by Twenty‘s tweets for December, and laughing at Allie Brosh‘s blog, which I have finally read back to the beginning of. Which feels like productivity, even though it gets me no closer to any of my life goals. Anyway, I’ve put some info on [...]

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Hint hint

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Mike Allen reminded that the nomination period for the 2010 Nebula Award is open. My short story “Sundowning” is eligible.

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He could feel the head of the ax pressing against the top of his hand, the weight of the rifle in his other hand, and with a slight horror he realized that by holding both he would be able to use neither.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Read “The Clearing” by Alexi Zentner.

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When we were children, my sister and I used to walk to school in the morning and one day we found a small girl. She had fallen from a tree.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Read “Into the Rainforest” by Jenniey Tallman.

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speculative fiction online

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Escape Pod has posted an October Fiction Roundup.

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Selecting the appropriate individual for dining upon can seem quite a daunting prospect. However, the Muslim vampire can take heart, for God does not leave us without guidance.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Read “50 Fatwas for the Virtuous Vampire” by Pamela K. Taylor.

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I got out of bed. I’d taken to sleeping naked. He took a good look at me before reacting.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Per Contra has just published my literary short “Toy Boy.”

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American Lit List

Sunday, October 10, 2010

I’ve really gotten away from reading from my American Lit List in the past year. I embarked on this ambitious reading project in December 2007, with the end goal of having read whatever American novels I probably would have read had I grown up here (with the caveat that I have an English degree, so [...]

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