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  • Writer's Market Re: Speculative publisher list circa 2011-12

    It's been half a year since I posted this list of publishers. Since then one of them has published a thing by me, three more have just sent contacts, and ...

    Mar 4, 2012
  • Lounge, The Re: This season's hit: The Fart Whisperer’s Daughter

    The Fart Whisperer’s Daughter He was the alpha male of their tribe of ferret-men. She was the daughter of their medicine-ferret, known as the dark fart-whisperer. He would roam the ...

    Dec 17, 2011
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Rats, Twigs, and Black Bile

    Rats, Twigs, and MorningMist, thanks for the positivity burst, Mist! You're too kind - there are things to tweak almost on every line, but I'll get there. But your review ...

    Dec 11, 2011
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Rats, Twigs, and Black Bile

    Rough draft of rough story *** Closed for renovation

    Dec 10, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Making Snowmen

    Haha, I really liked that season piece - stumbly at places, yet evocative. Were I your designated editor, I'd have proposed something along these lines Snow is falling lightly, softly ...

    Dec 10, 2011
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Iran nukes

    Some are of the paranoid opinion that the US gov is not 'withdrawing' troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, but rather 'freeing them up', and will when ready say 'Oh gosh, ...

    Dec 8, 2011
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: ...has been taken down

    Sargsauce and Lilymore, thanks for the feedback. As not really sci-fi enthusiasts, your input is probably more objective in a general literary sense. So far all three reviews have been ...

    Dec 7, 2011
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: ...has been taken down

    Barefoot runner - great general feedback and every point you brought up is absolutely valid - thanx. The narrator is a guy and I should probably have the good doctor ...

    Dec 7, 2011
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: ...has been taken down

    ...has been taken down All the replies were great and very helpful

    Dec 7, 2011
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Iran nukes

    Under new management, please check back later.

    Dec 6, 2011
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Drying blood has been taken down

    Hey, Ziggie, thanks for the very to the point feedback. The first household fast forward to the future scene is indeed threadbare - I have to flesh it out a ...

    Dec 4, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: Are fantasy fiction and Yoga satanic?

    Did you mean to post this in the Lounge? Possibly, I'm more or less a virgin in the non-writing/reviewing /tip-giving spaces of YWS

    Dec 4, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: Are fantasy fiction and Yoga satanic?

    **Lawyered** - you just have me the most awsome idea ever, inkwell. Imagine: a magical prophecy fulfilling little fella who is actually an exorcist who wears a chastity ring and ...

    Dec 4, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: Are fantasy fiction and Yoga satanic?

    Repent, Azalea, before you've began crawling all over the ceiling and vomiting on people! And that sinister avatar of yours - take note of the demonic powers of Blossom, Bubbles ...

    Dec 4, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: Are fantasy fiction and Yoga satanic?

    ...I always thought gyms and special kids fulfilling prophecy fiction were the devil's work.

    Dec 4, 2011


The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening