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Marco Polo: a Text Adventure Game

Technically speaking, the JavaScript program I’ll be talking about today is a text-adventure game. And yet, it isn’t quite that – not like Mansion Escape, let alone The Clock Village. Yes, Marco Polo is a text adventure game – free, open-source, available to all – but at the same time it’s sort of a hybrid […]

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Infinite Scrolling: Destabilizing Perceptions

Infinite Scrolling refers to a website design where there is no fixed height – and thus amount of content – but instead the page keeps displaying new material as the user reaches the perceived bottom of the page. You might not immediately see anything particularly important about this, beyond its role as a design element. […]

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…and the New Beginning

Yes, Home for Fiction is back with new blog posts. The phrase of the title (… new beginning) refers to the last post published some eight months ago. Other than new blog posts, things haven’t changed. The site has been online, and I’ve been publishing Punning Walrus cartoons daily. There are two components involved in […]

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Home For Fiction – The End

Yes, that’s exactly what it sounds like: It’s the end for Home for Fiction. I’m giving up. I feel I have nothing of value left to say. More still, I’m at a place right now that I feel as if I’d never had anything of value to share. In other words, the entirety of all […]

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Do Female Vampires Menstruate?

“Of course not, you idiot”, I hear the pedant telling me, “female vampires don’t menstruate because vampires don’t exist”. Well, not so fast. Remember my post on whether narrative worlds are real. Yes, vampires are fictional. But reality is another point altogether. Nonetheless, let’s not get caught in semantics. Most of us agree that vampires […]

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Terminal Care: a Science Fiction Novel

After the short-story collection I talked about recently, A Less Disturbing Form of Reality, this is another old work retrieved from the depth of hell my, shall we say, secondary literary repertoire. Terminal Care is a science fiction novel with elements of a political thriller. This sentence alone is probably enough to convince you that […]

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5 Tools to Be Safe on the Internet

It’s not just that technology is changing at a fast pace; it’s changing at an accelerating pace. Heck, even the pace of acceleration is accelerating, too. Put simply, it’s really hard to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to computers, the internet, and IT security. Sadly, IT security is not considered a crucial […]

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A Less Disturbing Form of Reality: Short Story Collection

A Less Disturbing Form of Reality is a short story collection themed around the uncanny and the unexplained. However, there’s something you need to know: It’s not new. In fact, it’s anything but new. The stories were written between 2008 and 2014, though a handful of them are adaptations of even older stuff I’ve written. […]

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Death in A Christmas Carol: The Impossible Representation

It’s been a while since I shared something from my academic vault of uselessness… Well, alright; knowledge and thought are never useless; academia (the way it’s run nowadays) might be. But I digress. The following post on death in A Christmas Carol is a modified excerpt (pp. 148-149) from my doctoral dissertation, “Time is Everything with Him”: The […]

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Literary Translation: Secrets, Revelations, Reflection

I’ve talked before about literary translation, in a sense: In my post about translating poetry. But today there’s something more unique to talk about, having to do with what translating a novel can teach you about yourself and your writing craft. You might remember that some time ago I wrote a novel called The Storytelling […]

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