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October 28, 2017
First Blood – Free, Complete Short Story, a blast from the past from April 2016
*I am away at an undisclosed location (really undisclosed, because I’m not even going out for meals) trying to do the final push on Guardian. I’ve been trying to do this while at home for three months, and it finally because obvious that, for whatever reason, I can’t concentrate to finish work at home just now. (Hence no linking of this week’s columns at PJMedia, though I have four cued and waiting approval, but they are all recent, because my schedule is all to pieces.) However Guardian m...
October 27, 2017
What Happened? Or I Suffered For This Blog Post, And I Have To Share – by Amanda S. Green
The first book with question and answer on the cover!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the deepest, darkest cave on Earth, you know what happened. Almost a year ago, the Democratic Party failed to field a candidate who could defeat “the Donald”. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former First Lady of Arkansas, former First Lady of the United States, former U. S. Senator and former Secretary of...
October 26, 2017
The Failure of the Sexual Revolution by Out of the Darkness
I’ve recently been doing a lot of thinking about the horrible quagmire that modern dating has become. Fortunately, I’m out of that game now. I’ve spent the best decade of my life blissfully married to a wonderful man. Before that, however, I was admittedly a bit of a slut. I’m infertile and have been since I was 18. It’s a running joke that if I end up with an unplanned pregnancy, what I really need is a priest, because it’s a bit...
October 25, 2017
You Pay the Price
I think it was in Darkship Revenge that Athena just started saying “Nothing is ever simple nor easy.”
I confess this is because at that time, just after moving, and knee deep in boxes all over the house, that’s what my life felt like.
But it’s something we forget very often. There should be a note along with “Everything worth doing is worth doing well” that says “everything worth doing will be hard and have setbacks.
Don’t believe me?
How many of you are married? And how many weeks have you...
October 24, 2017
Shakespeare Had It Right – Doug Irvin
There are in excess of 170,000 words in the English language. It’s impossible to tell exactly how many, because some words are used with different meanings, so are loan words from other languages (hence considered English) and some are derived from other words as slang and similar terms.
Think of it: over ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THOUSAND WORDS plus extras. I doubt even an unabridged dictionary has that many – in fact, I question if any list any where h...
October 23, 2017
Who Is That Masked Man?
As a mid to late twentieth century young woman, steeped in the mores and tropes of my time it was always shocking to talk to my late-Victorian grandmother.
Shocking as in having your head held under the water pump when you’re drunk. And in the same way, sobering.
There are a lot of myths running around our culture (usually with pants on their heads screaming coo coo) one of them being for lack of a better term “the highwayman with a heart of gold.” Only sometimes he is a second story man (i...
October 22, 2017
Sunday Vignettes, nothing but Sunday Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike
So what’s a vignette? You might know them as flash fiction, or even just sketches. We will provide a prompt each Sunday that you can use directly (including it in your work) or just as an inspiration. You, in turn, will write about 50 words (yes, we are going for short shorts! Not even a Drabble 100 words, just half that!). Then post it! For an additional challenge, you can aim to make it exactly 50 words, i...
October 21, 2017
Quick Note And Links
I’m writing today, after I take a couple of hours off this morning, which might seem odd to you, but yesterday night I crashed so early and so hard not only did I forget my online responsibilities I also forgot to feed the cats. Which is why I woke up two hours ago with Greebo biting my elbow. Since this caused me to yell at him, he’s now hiding, but the other cats have been fed.
So I’m taking a couple of ours off, because I’m still recovering from whatever cold-from-hell was and I do not w...
October 20, 2017
Putting People in Boxes By BAS
No, I’m not talking about undertakers. I mean, the natural human desire to categorize things, and how that’s been perverted by leftists.
This post is the result of a discussion with a friend about standards and definitions. (For the record, this friend really exists; I’m not attributing my thoughts to an imaginary person.) He is a deep thinker, and has a propensity for making mental models of situations and people he encounters. I think this is fairly common amo...
October 19, 2017
A Generation With No Past
Most of humanity’s earliest stories are designed to explain “where do we come from?” and “How did we get here?”
Whether creation was from the slaying of Tiamat by the hero Marduk, or the more mannered tales of titans and wars with gods of the classic mythologies, stories were told children to explain “How did we get to where we are now?” Because answering that question inevitably answers at least in part “what are we here for?” and “What is the meaning of life.”
The fun part about the top do...
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