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Free Fiction: ON THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS

A short piece, not really science fiction, that I doubt I can sell. Here it is for your reading entertainment:

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ON THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS by John C. Wright

I was passing through one of the poorer sections of the country, going toward the capital.

Travel was difficult. There was occasional rail service, and overloaded trains (their roofs overhung dangerously with half-naked children, calm-faced mothers bent beneath drooping bundles) clattered their smok

More Diversity and More Perversity in the Future!

The Sci-Fi Channel (I cannot bring myself to type the phonetic/stupitastic new version of their name) has recoiled in craven fear and trembling when lectured by homosex activists, who gave the SF channel an "F" rating on their political correctness. Alas, the thoughtcrime! Not enough perverts on TV! The children have to be indoctrinated!

I kid you not. Here is the article: http://www.seattlepi.com/tvguide/408807_tvgif28.html

The head of Sci-Fi channel has contritely promised to include more homo

Wright's Writing Corner

Another entry in the ever-popular weekly column of writing advice over at the Visions of Arhyelon website: http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/Please visit and leave a comment.

Prospero Lost wins star from Publisher's Weekly

The beautiful and talented Mrs. John Wright (I allow her to write under her maiden name, provided she uses the typewriter in the kitchen, and she is barefoot and pregnant while she writes) has just gotten a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.

For those of you who are not starving and aspiring writers, Publisher's Weekly is prestigous--the kind of thing Librarian read when decided what books to order for a library--and a starred review is awarded only to books of particular merit. I give the

We Are All Terri Schiavo, and O-care is Our Husband

Do you remember the provisions of the Health Care Reform Bill presently before Congress? No? You have not read it? Well, neither have your representatives.

I have heard it contains a provision that when a patient is nearing the end of his life, a government-appointed doctor can write his living will for him, and make his end-of-life decisions, especially if prolonging his life will cost the government more money than human life is worth, roughly 20,000 dollars per six months of life.

I cannot quo

Boys and Girls, Women and Men

I read three interesting articles about raising children in an unisex culture. Allow me to quote the whole thing at length.

The articles speak for themselves. By way of comment I will only post a link to a website telling grown-up boys how to practice the fine and lost art of manliness :

http://artofmanliness.com/ -- the website promises to tell boy-men how to man up, including such accomplishments as how to wear a hat and how to find a barber.

The website (I draw my readers attention especially

Reviewer scorn for Choosers of the Slain

A review of CLOCKWORK PHOENIX singles out yours truly for contempt. The cause of the reviewer's discontent are self-explanatory.

There's always one story in an anthology that just makes me want to put the book down, at best, and the WTF award for this book goes to "Choosers of the Slain" by John C. Wright, boring old-style sff's great white hope: blah blah blah manly warriors blushing Valkyrie time traveling maiden I don't care. I'm honestly not sure what about this story is supposed to fit unde

Traces of Memory

A new study suggests that short-term memory may be present in fetuses at 30 weeks of age.

http://news.aol.com/article/fetus-memory/579768

Animal Standing

I heard today on the radio that certain activists are pressuring judges and legislatures to give animals the right to sue humans in a court of law.

Legitimate law schools, as Yale and Harvard, already have classes and seminars instructing advocates, who apparently mean to volunteer to represent the beasts much as a court-appointed attorney represents children or madmen or other incompetents, how to represent their bestial clients. Hence, in the near future, if a do-gooder sees you spanking your

Wright's Writing Corner

The adorable and talented Mrs. John Wright, who writes under the penname (and maiden name) L. Jagi Lamplighter, acceding gracefully to popular demand, has posted the second of her ongoing series on the art and science of writing.

Without further ado, here is the link. http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/73480.html Leave any polite comments fulsome with praise there on her blog, and leave any negative and/or argumentative comments here on my blog, so I can delete them without reading them, or answer