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ChatGPT is able to pass an MBA exam: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new...

It also passes other exams, like medical, law or business ones: https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/sto...

Which also begs the question of what we are testing for in schools?

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Read this Snack Story on 21 February by SIGNING UP at https://reina-sasaki.mailchimpsites.com/


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It is the one thing a writer fears most, or so I’ve been told, and never quite identified with. An empty page, to me, means opportunity and the leap into the unknown. Or it did, at least, until I opened the empty page on this blog and now, while sitting here with the word document open before me, fe

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To be a writer is to be a reader, and much of my work as an MFA student involves reading widely and studying elements of craft in the books that I choose. Of course, as a writer who specializes in all things Scandinavian, there’s plenty of Scandi influence here too. As January draws to a close, here

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Literary Titan awarded me their Silver Award for my book "Manifesto for a Serial Killer". As a result, I feel motivated to write a follow-up to Jessica Harper's story of app-generated murders.
The new one concentrates on murders of first responders to accidents she causes!

I also received 2 Reader's F Read more of this blog post »

“To my dearest Tommy,
Every night I dream of you,
And pray you know my love is true,
Because it’s hard to be apart,
I’ll gift to you my love-struck heart.
Be my Valentine.”

from ‘Love-STruck’ by Pauline yates

Love Me, Love Me Not – a Black Hare Press anthology – a collection of dark drabbles from various Read more of this blog post »

Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with “demoralization syndrome,” a condition commonly associated with terminal illness that’s characterized by a sense of helplessness and loss of purpose. American physicians are now increasingly suffering from a similar condition, except our Read more of this blog post »

Just finished reading "The World Before Us - The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" by Tom Higham, released by Yale Books.
Once in the not too distant past, modern day humanity, Homo Sapiens, shared our world with our nearest cousins: Homo Neanderthals, Homo Floresiensis, Homo Denisovans, Homo Luz Read more of this blog post »

Rainy day thoughts to contemplate as you craft your next masterpiece: A friend asked me the other day to read her self-help book. It’s not out yet, but she was nervous about her writing because although she’s a successful novelist, she’s never written self-help before. And guess what? I understood h

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"How serious since we drowned on Earth, and yet survived, living till the end, with our efforts to be acknowledged, for the mindful, sincere contribution from learning the thorny lessons of past."-Nithin Purple 

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Last September I was thrilled; I’d just gotten a message from my semi-shady “publicist” and it said this:

Hi Alex, We have a fun podcast for you. They would like to have you on as a guest to talk about your life, the issues and situations you have faced, etc. A general discussion with host Marci Warh Read more of this blog post »

March 2-5, 2023 at The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College in Claremont, CA.

I will be at this event with copies of "The Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground," a little tome of photographs I have taken of street scenes over the past few years, and a few zines.

Love You to Death by Bebe Faas Rice

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Who would have known that I could enjoy a book I found in the clearance part of Half Price Books where the cover literally came off in my hands?

It was a dollar...I got to buy it for 50 cents.

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(I wrote this story, originally titled "Detective Therapy: How Podcasting About an Unknown Comedian Changed My Life," for the now-defunct website The Doe at the beginning of 2022. Their format was all anonymous, so important details were originally left out. I've added crucial details here but tried

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