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Cold Brewed 002 ��� Dosing

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

Mark 9��and I thought the best way to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print was to re-release the digital version online, since it doesn���t format well for e-readers outside of scrolling. You can support it as the episodes release in two ways. One is to order a print copy directly from […]

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Cold Brewed 002 — Dosing

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

Mark 9 and I thought the best way to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print was to re-release the digital version online, since it doesn’t format well for e-readers outside of scrolling. You can support it as the episodes release in two ways. One is to order a print copy directly from […]

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Cold Brewed 001 ��� Hard Water

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

As Mark 9 and I thought through the best way to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print, we realized the tiniest fraction of��this��audience saw it live online when we released it in our early twenties. We decided to re-release it serially online, since it doesn���t format well for e-readers outside of […]

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Cold Brewed 001 — Hard Water

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

As Mark 9 and I thought through the best way to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print, we realized the tiniest fraction of this audience saw it live online when we released it in our early twenties. We decided to re-release it serially online, since it doesn’t format well for e-readers outside of […]

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Daddy Issues are Overrated

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

When my dad hooked back up with the babysitter he���d originally cheated on mom with, my siblings and I didn���t hear from him for a month. I was eating at a Texas barbecue joint a block from Times Square when that carpenter and millwright finally returned all of my ignored calls. I paced in the […]

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Why They Rejected You

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

Three case studies on pieces of mine that were rejected often prior to publication as well as a list of typical reasons for rejection, intended as a metaphor for life. They answer to “Why they rejected you” is simpler than it seems: I find it a shock at this stage in life that I have […]

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Open Letter to JB Pritzker for My Brother’s and Southern Illinois’s Tragic Flood

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

Dear JB Pritzker —  Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this (and for all of you who shared it widely enough to reach his desk). I write to you today on behalf of a subject nearest and dearest to my heart: Little Egypt, Southern Illinois during historic floods. If you’re reading this and not JB, […]

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The Secret Joplin Tunnels

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

A decade ago, Mark Neuenschwander (photographer of these photos) and I delved the secret tunnels beneath Joplin, Missouri���s downtown district. We delved the Joplin tunnels with the knowledge of a couple members of City Hall. We had prior experience:��do not delve these tunnels. Do not risk your life. They are��extremely��dangerous when there is any hint […]

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There’s pride. And then there’s pride.

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

My colleague and friend Dr. Shane J. Wood wrote a piece recently on Pride that reflects the state of my mind the last few years. I started this piece as a comment on his work and once it eclipsed 1,000 words, well… here we are. It seems to me part of the problem in our attempt to distinguish […]

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What is an antagonist? Or “How to Outline via Villains”

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

“What is an antagonist” originally sold to Writer’s Digest as “An Outline for Pantsers.” Teasing out the logic of an antagonist helps me understand how to outline both works I’m writing and works I’m trying to research or remember. We’re focusing on narrative works today, to be clear. Fiction, narrative poetry, memoir, film, etc. Though […]

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