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Flash Fiction Friday: Kyle 3099 (yeah, I know. It’s not Wednesday either.)

Please see the lovely photo which inspired this piece, Kyle 3099 on Genoa Hill From High Plains Hogger on Flicker   The conductor, Kyle 3099 according to his embroidered nametag, slept peacefully on the cabin floor....
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Flash Fiction Friday – 14 Feb 2017

14 February 2017. For Chuck Wendig’s weekly Flash Fiction prompt. My Random Number Generator chose 10. Long way home. April hoisted her lumpy backpack up on her bony shoulders. It should have weighed more. The dehydrated...

Virginia Woolf, Downton Abbey, and damned statistics

I’m a bit late getting to this piece of news, but I just read a story about Virginia Woolf’s suicide. I’ve never read any of her work. I need to catch up. (Pics from...

Survey results… for the curious!

Survey results are in! Thanks to so many for participating! I thought you might want to know the outcome!    Yep, it’s goats and AKs from Peshawar.   Thanks to all who participated! Percentages of...
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Please advise: one magnificent sentence

Hello word fans! Can you help me with a sentence? Just one little subject, predicate, object, some punctuation, and bingo! These are from my forthcoming novel, Spy Act. I’m keen to hook a particular agent. Here...
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Home turf

I’m back in Bogota and working feverishly on new queries, new agents, new chances. At the advice of a particular editor, I queried one last week and was almost instantaneously rejected. But she was...