Author Archives: epbeaumont

Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 21 August 2016 (character interview for The Clone’s Complaint)

Posted on August 21, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Oddly enough for this body being borrowed, I’ve always fit inside its skin quite neatly. … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 14 August 2016 (character interview for The Clone’s Complaint)

Posted on August 14, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Curl it tight, seal the vial once more, loop the chain and drop it into … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 7 August 2016 (character interview for The Clone’s Complaint)

Posted on August 7, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** After I lost that game of Galactic Flight for us when we were both nine, … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 17 July 2016 (character interview for The Clone’s Complaint)

Posted on July 17, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** I fancied one or two of the Shipwright’s Apprentices when I was in my teens; those … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 10 July 2016 (character interview for The Clone’s Complaint)

Posted on July 10, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Anyway, Yasmin my namesake. To guide me in the right paths, what-bloody-ever. Yasmin the coffee-farm … Continue reading →

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Muse of Research II: Food As World Building (Heather Rose Jones)

Posted on July 5, 2016 by epbeaumont

One of the things that draws us inexorably into another world is the food. From Marcel Proust’s cookie that launched a million words to the favorite treats of space station dwellers thousands of years in the future, what we eat … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 July 2016 (WIP Ship’s Heart)

Posted on July 3, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Even in training exercises, her teacher said, Martisset moved with the atmosphere like a skilled rider … Continue reading →

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The Muse of Research: Math and Other Marvels (S. L. Huang)

Posted on June 30, 2016 by epbeaumont

One of the great pleasures of reading is hanging out with folks whose storytelling game is totally different from my own. S. L. Huang writes the action-packed adventures of a mathematical mercenary-superhero, Cas Russell, whose style of math and narration … Continue reading →

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Muse of Research II: Food As World Building (Lev Mirov @thelionmachine)

Posted on June 28, 2016 by epbeaumont

One of the things that draws us inexorably into another world is the food. From Marcel Proust’s cookie that launched a million words to the favorite treats of space station dwellers thousands of years in the future, what we eat … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 26 June 2016 (WIP Ship’s Heart)

Posted on June 26, 2016 by epbeaumont

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** The refectory was another puzzle: bright and airy, as if there were no need to … Continue reading →

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