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Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
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Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Origami Around
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Cosmic Funnies
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Love Begins
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@akoehler
Hidden but not Hiding ...
So here’s what happened. I shut down a couple other sites that my older posts called home and imported them here. Well, that isn’t as simple as it sounds because the imported pieces looked dreadful for the most part. What that means is that I needed to do some additional housecleaning up in here. Now, you may find some posts with still iffy links and such, and I cry your pardon on that. Feel…
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Additional Writing Digs
I’ve decided I want to write more. I know: If you’ve been around any of my blogs, you know I’ve written those (or similar) words before. But as the saying goes, one must put one’s coins where one’s piehole is, since that’s a sure way to keep the fires burning. Or something like that. I’ve joined Medium — you’ll find an RSS feed in the sidebar, but I encourage you to follow me over there. In…
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The Writing Swamp
No disrespect to whoever coined the term ‘messy middle’ as an element of the novel (or story, I suppose) writing process. If you aren’t sure what it is, check out this post from Edits Underway. TL:DR – it’s that part where you get stuck and start thinking you’ll never finish. Or where you get down on yourself, that those goo-gobs of words you’ve already written are rubbish. Or where you feel…
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New Horizons, or Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Writing is so much easier than using a bread machine.
Only Bowie will do It’s an almost rainy Saturday afternoon and Bowie’s ‘ch-ch-ch-ch’ came to my mind. I just finished organizing my works-in-progress. What had happened was, I had an epiphany about creating a spreadsheet with all my current projects, their genres and wordcounts, titles, loglines, and info listed with their last ‘worked-on’ date. Sure, I have a folder with all these beauties but…
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Owner of a Broken Heart
If a lonely heart is better than a broken one, what is a broken one better than?
Okay, so that’s not what it’s really called. Not the name, but those words are in the lyrics … This song (how is it possible that it’s 41 years old?!) came to mind this morning as I think about the tear-filled evening I spent watching anime last night. It’s been two weeks since I got up and saw how my sweet big boy (dog) Woola was struggling, his wavering steps in the door of my office, how…
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Posts from a Temporary Alter-Ego
One day, I decided I wanted a new pen name. Then, life changed and I realized I am not satisfied with that name, despite the fact that I’ve published under it. It’s just not me, you know? I’m working it out now, trying to decide how to link the posts from that site to this one because I don’t want to lose them. Copy paste? Subdomain? I haven’t figured that out yet. But it’s coming and somehow,…
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Self-Care
Self care is vital.
In case you want to ask the question where you been at, doh?, I figured I’d offer up the info beforehand. These last two years have been kicking my bootie. I am still reeling I think from 2021, when I worked two full time jobs for the year. I had an anxiety attack in early 2022, just when I was expecting to hit a cruising gear with everything. We moved back east in the late summer of 2022 and…
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That Time the Swamp King Saved Love and Television
Possible Trigger Warning: horror story that includes human trafficking reference.
I submitted this weird little story to the February Apparition Literary Flash Fiction Contest. It wasn’t accepted and I remembered I had a little corner of this space for the rejects. Enjoy! Alonzo hated begging but was good at it. ‘But you said you wanted to do something with that dating show you started a while back, and it’s a great way to get in the spotlight.’ With a manicured nail,…
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Grinding the Goals, 2023
I made it -- I'm SWFA now, y'all!
Happy 2023, everybody. I’m a month (and some change) late writing those words, but keep reading. We moved cross-country last summer and as those who’ve ever moved a household from one place to another can attest, is a beast. The moving company was a nightmare and we got here about three days before the 2022 summer Voodoonauts Fellowship was due to begin and a week or so before I had to be…
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Time Flies
Taking a break after taking a break ... but I'll be around.
Photo courtesy: Dr. Jamie Long I had no idea it had been this long since I’d stopped by to leave a trail of words on this page. If you’ve been on the journey with me, you’ve likely seen the various deserts I’ve come back from — writing deserts, that is, where nothing beyond the occasional academic piece were developed. This last desert has been one of a different kind — I have been writing,…
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Sometimes, It's All Too Much ...
When anxiety is winning, at least for today.
I am aghast with gratefulness, truly I am. But … That’s the danger, isn’t it. Not being able to stay in a place of gratefulness because of all the other things going on. Today, for me, it’s immense anxiety. There’s a lot going on and I feel like I’m standing on one foot, atop a rickety staircase built of rotting wood at the precipice of the tallest mountain peak in the world and I’m juggling…
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A Missive on Choice and Control
The bottom line: don't judge. It's not your business.
Remove the beam from your own eye … Matthew 7:5 Oh, yes: the Creator of the Universe has a sense of humor. There is no need for sitcoms or daytime talk shows in the heavenly realms because, well … … we exist. We — humans, that is — spend an extraordinary amount of time, pointing fingers at what other people are doing and have the gall to tell them what is right and true for them. Really,…
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Asks and Gives
I'm working on not being so selfish ...
There are times when all we do is ask, all we do is fall to our knees and cry out for whatever it is that we (think we) want. But the world is bigger than that. The spirit is bigger. Some may find that idea a bit floogy, mushy, or otherwise nebulous, especially if they don’t identify with a specific spiritual practice. Yet, we all have a ‘thing’, even if we don’t call it spirituality or faith.…
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I Wrote a Letter: A Missive on Mental Health
When mental health care systems are horribly broken, this is the result.
I’ve come to understand more and more that getting health care is not for the faint-hearted. Instead of the system getting better, it’s become more complicated, scary, and less caring than ever. Remember the neighborhood or ‘country doctor’? If you’re on the younger side, you might not have had the pleasure and pain of such a person, but for those of us a bit longer in the tooth, it was nothing…
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Rejection Regeneration 1: Jerry's Secret
Space -- the final frontier for both truth and lies.
Jerry had been excited about traveling from the created moon out behind Titan, where his family had lived since his great-grandmother had been a baby. He’d never been away from there, not even outside the atmospheric dome to visit Titan or one of the floating cities high in Saturn’s atmosphere. To have been hired on at Europa Incorporated was a dream come true. Perry, the younger twin, didn’t…
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Rejection Regeneration
Writing rejections are okay. I'll just regenerate them.
So, Paramount+ has ‘The Stand’ series. No, this post isn’t about the whole thing going on with Johnny Depp right now. It’s about the character who was a writer. At one point, he and the female character he was really into talk about the time she told him to save his rejection letters. This is about rejection, about the emails (for those of us who make electric submissions) we’ve gotten that…
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Choruses and Coke
Writers need hobbies, so maybe drinking and smoking will be mine.
I’ve never understood some drugs, which I guess is a good thing. I never understood pills, especially since I like to read the labels of prescription medications. I’m not taking some tablet with a lovely hue and smiley face, just because. Just sayin. I even struggle to take nasal spray when I have a cold, preferring to prepare a meal requiring a healthy dose of horseradish instead. I tried…
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