Never give up
I've been kinda off-kilter lately. Weird mood swings--cheerful and happy, then suddenly grumpy and stressed for no clear reason. Having...
Testing
Nearly a week ago, my Movable Type installation suddenly informed me that I needed to upgrade it. This was kind...
The season
Whenever a Vienna Teng song I haven't heard yet comes up in the iTunes rotation, I have to stop and...
This week’s SH fiction: “The First Time We Met”
This week at Strange Horizons: "The First Time We Met," by Maria Deira. I'm having trouble coming up with a...
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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]"?...