Category: writing
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Troped!
The Lyttle Lytton Contest is an annual challenge to write the worst (but somewhat brief) opening line of a novel. Back in 2011, I decided to submit the following entry for their consideration: “You just may be the most beautiful perp I’ve ever laid sensors on,” thought the robot lieutenant as his humanoid partner ate…
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Slow Wave dreams
Artist Jesse Reklaw began drawing the comic Slow Wave in 1995, but it wasn’t until around a decade later that I first came across it. It was love at first sight. The strip’s central conceit – people send in descriptions of a dream they had and Reklaw illustrates them – appealed to my sense of…
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The Sickness
A poem.
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