Tag Archives: Fantasy

Six Sentence Sunday, 18 March 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on March 18, 2012 by epbeaumont

“Thank you, Araminta,” Charlotte said.  She prided herself on the good manners of her house servants, Araminta and her sister Sarah and the footmen, Scipio and Hannibal.  Thomas liked his male slaves to have names out of the classics; it … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: The MFA I don’t have

Posted on March 14, 2012 by epbeaumont

I recently launched on the project of filing all of my written work in one place, since it was scattered all over my rather overstuffed apartment. My sister suggested that I pretend that I was going to get a new … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 11 March 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on March 11, 2012 by epbeaumont

It’s that stupid Vera, on about the data again.  She wants clarification of something or other.  They met, and Vera was talking, and Anne-Marie has to confess that she started thinking about her kitchen and the remodeling she’d like to … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Everybody is subcultural (Literary fiction is a genre too)

Posted on March 7, 2012 by epbeaumont

Until I started working with the National Novel Writing Month local community in the Twin Cities, my experience with peer-organized writing groups (as opposed to professionally led classes) had been nearly uniformly negative. Now, I feel as if I’ve come … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 4 March 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on March 4, 2012 by epbeaumont

In Utopia, no-place or Eutopia, the good place, dreams are solid as marble and blue as the sea.  Favilla Vogel, whose name means a bird, had been dreaming of flight.  She had her arms wrapped around someone whose face she … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Loose Baggy Monsters, or the Lasagna Theory

Posted on February 28, 2012 by epbeaumont

The overture: two epigraphs A good play, like a good lasagna, should be overstuffed: It has a pomposity, and an overreach: Its ambitions extend in the direction of not-missing-a-trick, it has a bursting omnipotence up its sleeve, or rather, under … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 26 February 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on February 26, 2012 by epbeaumont

The harbor at Utopia is shaped like a crescent.  Twin arms of white-and-gold headland wrap tenderly around the bay like the horns of the moon, like a mother holding a beloved child.  Favilla Vogel looks out over the water, as … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 19 February 2012 (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: a Love Story)

Posted on February 19, 2012 by epbeaumont

Albert approached Kirsten now, under the watchful eye of Petra.  Yes, she granted, he might have a dance. Kirsten matched him figure for figure.  Somewhere in the middle of the set, another player joined  with drums. The rhythm grew insistent, … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 12 February 2012 (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: a Love Story)

Posted on February 12, 2012 by epbeaumont

From the west came word of shape-shifters and forest witches, who changed shape and sex and even species, turning into rock or wind at will. In North America, the resurgent timberwolf population had to contend with competition from werewolves, and … Continue reading →

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NaNoFeed: NaNo 2011 is finished, and now a backward look

Posted on February 8, 2012 by epbeaumont

Last night around 9:30pm I finished writing the endgame of my 2011 National Novel Writing Month project, The Necromancer and the Barbarian: A Love Story. I promptly sent the revised full manuscript and the replacement final chapters to my beta readers. … Continue reading →

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