For the first few years I lived in our house in Maine, our only unexpected, ever hopeful visitor was a dog who crossed the highway often to visit us – so of course once I began imagining the world of the story, the dog made his scheduled appearance. [Read more]

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Bill Yarrow‘s poems have converted me to poetry. [Read more]

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I hope the group is a place where people can come and go, chill-lax, theorize about Flux Capacitors, the TARDIS and even why Hobbits have big hairy feet (if they wanted to). It’s also a place to share their fantasy/sci-fi stories so it doesn’t get lost in the greater “playing field”. [Read more]

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I started this book with an image of that first scene in the bath tub, Marie, her large breasts, a glass of whiskey, that little girl. I sat down to type and there came that first sentence: Sometimes, Marie got a little drunk at work. [Read more]

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Tin House-gate is how it has been described, the topic of conversation dominating lit mag chatter this past weekend . [Read more]

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I had these shadowy characters full of pent-up anger or sadness or missingness–longing–and I knew there was something that explained this. I had this obsession that I was avoiding. So I started letting my life into theirs, and their desires and problems became much clearer, and in the process I became clearer to myself. [Read more]

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Let’s first talk about the Fictionaut group Original, Unpublished Flash. I think what you’ve been able to establish is an alternate slice of Fictionaut, in that, you categorized a home for works specifically “on the market.” [Read more]

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