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Joining the Majority – Amanda S. Green

Joining the Majority – Amanda S. Green

The coming of a new year always brings with it new laws. Most of the time, those laws go into effect with little to no fanfare. Many received even less coverage in the press when they were proposed, debated and eventually signed into law. This year is different. All you have to do is turn on the national news or pick up a nationally circulated newspaper or go onto social media sites like Facebook to know that Texas has completely lost its collective min...

The Myths of Collapse

Okay, lately I keep running into people who say some variation of “we’re going to collapse” or “this will all have to collapse.”

Last night I realized when people say stuff like that, they’re coming from an entire mythology of collapse, that has absolutely nothing to do with the real world and everything to do with the ubiquitous messages of our entertainment, and the equality ubiquitous myths inherent in how our history is taught these days.

The messages of our entertainment should be self-e...

The Fish Ate My Homework

So, I know you’re all tired of my saying I’m late because of a cat or another. That’s okay. These last two days it was the fish’s turn. The fish is a red and blue (with tiny little bit of white on the necktie fins) betta, whose full name is Agile Antelope Betta Version, but whose calling name is Derp, also Derpfish and Derpsardine.

He’s about one and a half years old, his main hobby is building magnificent bubble palaces, in hopes I’ll relent and getting him a bride. But for the last two week...

A Sale

They say confession is good for the soul. I didn’t mail the physical books I promised subscribers, though I hoped to, right up to yesterday. You see, where we are there is no post office in walking range and I’m still not driving as I haven’t been for the last 3 years. (For various reasons some my health and some the car’s, both of which are being dealt with but aren’t instant.) I had issues coordinating my time and another person’s enough to make it to the post awful.

If you were counting o...

The Camels of Christmas- Complete short story

The Camels of Christmas

Sarah A. Hoyt

There was someone new in the enclosure. And something was very wrong.

The thought flashed through Jason’s mind, and the next moment he realized he’d thought it, and that it had been in words. Real words, not the vague feelings, senses and impulses that had occupied his mind for… how long.

He looked around with a sense of waking up. He was in the camel enclosure in the zoo. As he should be. Beyond the enclosure, there were twinkling lights, and sounds...

Evie Jones and the Spirit Stalker- Amie Gibbons

*Yes, the camels will come, eventually. But Euclid took a claw from Greebo just above his eye. It’s probably nothing but I didn’t want to drag it through Christmas, when the vet is closed, and have it get massive and maybe have the cat lose his eye. So we took him in for a shot of Convenia (slow release antibiotic) but course, the clinic was packed with people who don’t want to leave it till after the holidays, whatever it is. So… an hour and change there. And then my mom is supposed to call,...

GRUMBLE

Story — The Camels of Christmas, in the shifter universe — not done yet.

On account of TWO vet visits, and one more tomorrow. Minor stuff, but argh.

When Characters Take Over by Amanda Green

*Sorry guys, I’m working on another gift short story. My intention is to put these in kindle format for ya’ll on download on Friday morning. But we have older boy home, and the routine of the house is no longer accommodated to him, so it’s taken me this long to make it to a keyboard. So, Promo post (by Amanda Green) first, gift in the evening, okay? Be good. Treat shall come in time.*

When characters take over – Amanda Green

Once upon a time, I went to the Romance Writers of America national...

We Wish You A Merry Promo- Free Range Oyster

*Post of the day below this one. If you’re here for feisty opinion, keep scrolling down, but keep track of what’s on offer anyway. Some good stuff.*

We Wish You A Merry Promo- Free Range Oyster

Festive greetings, O my people! This has been a great week for promo submissions. We’ve several new releases, some older ones on sale, and some lovely covers among them both (just hanging out here has made me more attentive to covers; running the promo has made me a downright snob). I’ve heard rumor t...

Tin foil hat or reality speaking?- Amanda Green

*Okay, this is Sarah speaking. The mollusc and I some communication issues, so the promo post will go up around two my time tomorrow and for the end of the year I’ll put up promo posts (mostly for other people) in the afternoon. I’ll take care to inform you at the top of those where the post of the day is — completely out-of-itly yours – SAH*

Tin foil hat or reality speaking?- Amanda Green

Approximately a week ago, a 12 year old in Arlington, TX was taken into custody after telling another s...