For Those Reading By RSS

A couple of private posts, including a new (very) short story, are up which might interest you. Private posts never show up on RSS, so I’m mentioning it on the open feed. Which reminds me, I may try to find a way of having WordPress note when a private post has been made, without it showing the content, just so that RSS subscribers can know that there is something new, even if they can’t see it on the feed. It would seem to be a very useful function, and I’d be surprised if someone hasn’t thought of it yet. Though …

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First of the Wave

Outgoing submissions have just begun. I just sent a very unlikely submission to a very unlikely magazine, but hey, why not take a shot in the dark here and there? It’s dark, it’s off-color, more brutal than most things I’ve written to date, and viciously political and, I think, effective as satire. But still, the only reason I went ahead and sent it to this particular magazine was because they accept submissions by email (as my friend John informed me of that a long time ago) and I figured it was worth the random long shot, as this is the …

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The Way Things Go and Come Around

At the end of high school, getting onto a bus with my first girlfriend, I was mistaken for a girl. Okay, it was a very old, blind bus driver; he had to be, as I never really did keep up with shaving in high school. But I guess this guy grew up in a time when long hair equalled girl, and that last year of high school, I had let my hair grow out. So he addressed us, collectively, as “young ladies”. I don’t know, maybe he knew what he was doing and did it just to insult me — …

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Red Pen Machete

I spent a lot of time last weekend grading. Okay, not as much as I might have liked, but a lot nonetheless. I have read through, added comments, and graded the Mind Maps of the Advanced writing class, but not yet recorded the grades in my records. I have read through, added comments to, and sorted (but not assigned letter-grades) the Daytime Elementary Writing course’s Mind Maps. I have read through, added comments to, and sorted (but not assigned letter-grades) almost all of the Magazine Demographic/Advertising Analyses in my Media class. I have uploaded to a gallery, but not yet …

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