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Last week’s SH fiction: “Obedience”
Forgot to post this last week. Last week at Strange Horizons: "Obedience," by Brenna Yovanoff. We don't normally publish zombie...
Exercise: Boy meets girl
Here's a writing exercise: Write a story in which a male human meets a female human, and neither one falls...
Gilmore Girls
Various people (especially Susan and Karen, I think) have been telling me for years how great Gilmore Girls is. The...
Why Tom Zarek Was Right
I really was about to go to bed half an hour ago, but then I saw that Joe R had...
Thoughtcrime Experiments submission deadline impending
Sumana mentioned Thoughtcrime Experiments in a comment this evening. I hadn't previously heard of it--I'm a little out of touch--but...
“Destruction and Discord!” said the Pins and Needles
Sure seems like a lot of stressful stuff happening lately. There's the big-picture world-news stuff, of course: Sri Lanka at...
New SH fiction response-status page
You know how every so often I post a note here saying "we've responded to stories submitted through [date x]"?...
In which Tom Baker and Lalla Ward cheer me up
I was in a weird mood and exhausted all day today. I cheered up a bit over dinner, but was...
Coraline
We went to see Coraline tonight. I probably wouldn't have gotten around to it this weekend on my own, but...
Coraline and Burton
I know at least two people who thought that the Coraline movie was directed by Tim Burton; it's an easy...
Replacing MT Blogroll
When Movable Type 4 came out, the author of the popular MT Blogroll plugin wrote a new plugin called LinkRoller,...