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So my entry into the Selected Shorts 2014 Stella Kupferberg Short Story Prize is off, wish me luck. It’s called “The Foragers.” Selected Shorts is one of my favorite ways to pass the time in the car. Their podcast is free on iTunes and has some amazing quality stories and readings of those stories. Their…
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Okay, so I’m not supposed to be doing this — the writing of this post or the playing of the video game I’m about to mention — but the greatest video game of all-time has been spiffed up and re-released by the BBC. Written by Douglas Adams, the text-based game is based on the text-based…
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I’m typing this to you from an undisclosed location on a stolen WiFi signal (rigged, MacGuyver-style, from a coffee filter, three paperclips, a filling from one of my teeth, and a pencil) so my minders won’t know that I’m not feverishly typing away at Butterfly. I am still alive. Send Dunks.
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So, for whatever reason, I subscribe to One Story, the magazine. You may, too, for all I know. If you don’t you may want to. It’s a short story a month (plus one extra, I believe, daylight savings story, we’ll call it), which I think I enjoy because of the high risk the publishers have taken.…
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I cannot urge you enough to go and grab the “Ghosts and Angels” Selected Shorts podcast episode now, like RIGHT NOW, before it goes away. I’ve made it through two of the stories so far, and both of the readings are excellent, but the late founder of the Selected Shorts program, Isaiah Sheffer, reads a…
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As a meager thank you for reading these very words, I want to present to you the Mona Schreiber Prize-Losing short story, “Saint Patrick’s Next Trick.” It’s a story about the truth behind Saint Patrick’s miracles, especially out on the west coast of Ireland. You’ll learn things you maybe only suspected in this gripping tale…
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In all this holiday focus on the Mayan Ball League, end of the world, and novel editing, some of you may be crying out, “But what of Verano the fish, that lovable scamp of a fish!” Well, here’s a partial answer: And there’s your reason W.C. Fields said, “Never work…
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How’re we all faring? Everybody okay, I trust? You know what time of year it is, right? That’s right, it’s the anniversary of when time ran out on the Mayans! So in honor of this special time of year, “The History of the Mayan Ball League” is now FREE*! It’s also now super-short, just like…
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I was given a review copy of this book (The Hereafter Gang, by Neal Barrett, Jr). Joe Lansdale gave it a plug on Facebook, asking people to drop the publisher a line to help get this book the attention it deserved. So I dropped them a line and got my copy. This is the first…