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COLYA# 6: A Collection of Killer Beginning Lines
And finally, to wrap up last year’s attic cleaning, here is the dust bin where a bunch of great openers have sat for months or years. Like everything else, I may end up using some of them some day but until then, I present them here, free of context and full of potential! – I […]
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Cleaning out Last Year’s Attic
If you’re a writer like me, you probably have a lot of partial drafts, unfinished stories and projects that were started but never fully developed sitting in a folder somewhere. Some people might see this as a struggle to commit or “hunker down and get the work done” or whatever. Not me. To me, collecting […]
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Haaaaaave you seen StarNinja’s 7th Blogaversary Writing Challenge?
Well, folks, we’re about a month away from this blog’s 7th Blogaversary. That’s pretty exciting. How does one celebrate a blogaversary like this, you may be asking? Well, I could throw a party. I could do an anniversary tour. I could hit the Nuclear Option button and release all my unfinished work as a giant […]
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StarNinja’s Self-Imposed 7th Blogaversary Super Short Story Writing Challenge!
So….. Apparently it’ll be seven years in May since I started this blog. How time flies! I guess I’d better follow the example of one intelligent and talented poet and go about making my own blogaversary challenge. So here it is! The challenge goes like this: in celebration of 7 damn years at the Wormhole […]
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The Minimalist #9
The Princess and the Beggar It came to pass that one fine day, Princess Haley came face to face with her near perfect reflection, a beggar named Carla. The princess, who’d always wanted to live an exciting life, came up with the brilliant plan of switching places with the beggar. The beggar, presented with the […]
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I’m Going to Delete it All
Are you sure you want to close your account? My finger hovered over the mouse. One little twitch and years of work would be gone. It wasn’t like deleting your Facebook. They made this process fairly easy. My heart began to race. I thought it would be easier. Like getting rid of an anchor. Snipping […]
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Trilibre: A Petition from Ke Izzlo
Recovered from New Auric: A reply to the Recycler Committee’s petition to club a Maej woman by Ke Izzlo With regards to the proposal of “should we club the Maej woman until she dies” I say fuckkin no. The crime of being born Maej was not her choice. She simply walked into the wrong neighborhood […]
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Trilibre: The Record of Isslu
Translated from High Auric: The Record of Isslu, of House Ishlu The record of world events can be separated into three distinct ages or Times. The largely forgotten First Times, the vaguely remembered Second Times, and our own Third Times, the greatest Times ever recorded. No one remembers the First Times. Our only evidence of […]
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Trilibre: The Saga of Dar
Translated from Old Auric: The Saga of Dar The hedmin was dying. Dar was not ready for the hedmin to die, for the hedmin was his fama. He was not prepared. He knew not the ways. The hedmin had promised the lessons once Dar had found his twin. But there was no twin, and Dar […]
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I Suck at Poetry #6
Well that didn’t last long :P. Here’s the last poem. Straw Dogs This is a world of Big Men Where Straw Dogs get burned. Cruelty is the point When power’s abused and unearned.
The Wormhole Less Traveled 