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October 21, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 421

Short story: Doesn’t Only Take a Twister by Todd Honeycutt, Centropic Oracle, from October 2017. Recommended.


Poem: Covered a Great Distance Without Effort by Jeffrey Jullich, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from October 2017.


Essay: I Hope this Email Finds You Well… by Mary Beard, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from October 2017.


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Published on October 21, 2017 06:21

October 20, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 421

Short story: The Adventure of the Crooked Man by Arthur Conan Doyle, from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Recommended.


Poem: First Love by Jan Owen, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


Essay: Google, listened to on the BBC’s 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on October 20, 2017 08:30

October 19, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 420

Short story: Super Villians Always Order Off the Menu by Anna Gardner, listened to on the 600 Second Saga podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


Poem: Love is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Milla, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


Essay: Arand Menon on Robert Birley, listened to on the BBC’s Reith Lectures, from September 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on October 19, 2017 06:38

October 18, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 419

Short story: We are Turning on a Spindle by Joanna Parypinski, from Nightmare magazine, October 2017. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Happy Trigger by Carmen Giménez Smith, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


Essay: The New Age of Corporate Monopolies by Margrethe Vestager, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


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Published on October 18, 2017 14:45

October 17, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 418

Short story: Fathers and Sons by Ernest Hemingway, from Collected Short Stories. Recommended.


Poem: Ars Poetica by Dorothea Lasky, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


Essay: Still Can’t Believe They Did That: More Human Guinea Pigs, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


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Published on October 17, 2017 11:42

October 15, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 417

Short story: Mulholland Dive by Michael Connelly, from USA Noir (2013) edited by Johnny Temple. Recommended.


Poem: Psalm for Mary Jane Veloso by Barbara Jane Reyes, listened to on the Poetry Now podcast, from October 2017. Highly Recommended.


Essay: The Battle for Free Speech by Andrew Sullivan, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from October 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on October 15, 2017 23:31

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 416

Short story: Hell Hath No Fury by Sherrilyn Kenyon, from Dangerous Women, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.


Poem: An Old Woman’s Painting by Lynn Emanuel, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from October 2017.


Essay: Rural Women, listened on the Sincerely, X, podcast from September 2017. Recommended.


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Published on October 15, 2017 13:01

Jon’s Author Diary – 002 – October 15, 2017

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In today’s episode, Jon shares his author diary for the week ending October 15, 2017.


In this episode he talks about his progress on his ongoing writing projects and answers the first set of listeners’ questions. He also discusses his late night session on the Fantasy Fiends podcast.


You can find out more about Jon Cronshaw and his work by visiting joncronshaw.com or by visiting Jon’s author page.


Like his Facebook page at facebook.com/joncronshawauthor


Follow him on Twitter @jlcronshaw.


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Published on October 15, 2017 06:09

October 13, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 415

Short story: Cross-Country Snow by Ernest Hemingway, from Collected Short Stories. Recommended.


Poem: Salvation by Stephen Dunn, listened to on the Poem of the Podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


Essay: Statue of Tara, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from June 2010. Highly Recommended.


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Published on October 13, 2017 23:26

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 314

Short story: Between the Particle by J. W. Troeminer, listened on the 600 Second Saga podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


Poem: History Lessons by Sidney Wade, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from October 2017. Recommended.


Essay: Insurance, from the BBC’s 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on October 13, 2017 03:13