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Category Archives: Writing
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 17 May 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)
My mother Laila-Istvan was sixty-seven when I was born, from genetic material she’d set aside when she came of reproductive age. In ageless stasis, it kept fresh; my gene-father was nearly two generations younger, young enough to have been her … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 10 May 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)
The restless one has returned. Taryn laughs with her cousin’s former apprentices, swings her kit-bag to one shoulder, greets one and all as she walks down the Heart-Ring corridor with the swagger-and-sway, the bouncing steps, of someone who’s used to … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 May 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)
“So on Karis, I’d be Jehen Outlander,” Jehen said. “Oh no, you’d be Jehen whatever-your-epithet-is. Sarronny’s different.” “Why?” Yasmin asked. Mavra smiled, as if she’d been waiting for that question. “You know about the Revolt, and the Treaty–that’s why. We’re … Continue reading
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Genre Trouble: All Art is Interactive (or Why There Are Many Ways to Review)
As I have been reading and reviewing, I’ve listened to a lot of conversations about the “right” way to review. Part of the current backlash against People Who Are Not Our Demographic Producing Things We Produce (be that video games, … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 26 April 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart, character interview)
Downbelow, the Inhabitants make music in the infrared, and I bathe my own inhabitants (those lower-case, the Humans) in subtle movements of warmth. I wear my history, in the constant circulation of signals, in the minute dents in the hull; … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 19 April 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)
Mavra turned to Ferenc. “It’s a story, but yes, on Karis they did once cut throats on the altar of the Queen of the Snows. For treason and for disobeying clan-affiliation rules, but they haven’t done that in recent times, … Continue reading
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Ship’s Heart: Naime the Shipwright (character interview)
Sick with a spring cold and/or allergies, and still struggling with nonfiction writing. So instead, another fictional excerpt which is more than a propos to some of our current questions. *** Love is atmosphere, it’s safety, it’s the circle within … Continue reading
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Ship’s Heart: Naime the Shipwright (character interview)
I am Naime-Martisset yr Astok. My parents and their marriage-patron are long dead, as am I. I persist now as a memory, one of the Ship’s-Hearts, though it’s no longer a ship, really, but … that’s another story. Too long … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 12 April 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)
Ferenc and the little ones darted between them, imitating the dancers who fell when the light stabbed across them. The song rose to a despairing shriek; the scene changed, without warning, to a dais on which the sole survivor stood, … Continue reading
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The Not Really SF Short Story Challenge, or Hard SF Invades Literatania
It’s a bright and sunny day, excellent for a constitutional stroll, but Your Humble Author has been noodling around on Twitter, aka the Devil’s Workshop. Back in the halcyon Leaden Age of SF, mad scientists explained things at length and … Continue reading
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