Category: Cooked
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Short (500 word) speculative nightmare about how those inspirational billboards hit when you’re running on empty.
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CN: thoughts about war, betrayal, and death, but also about rhetorical techniques in words and music. Note: links below. I was listening to “The Walk,” a song by Eurythmics off their chart-topping 1982 smash album “Sweet Dreams are Made of This,” when I heard a weird, familiar little tinkling ladder of sound. It was descending…
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Original fiction read by the author. “The Unforgetting” is a 250-word flash about a beautiful immortal woman and the mortal human who loves her.
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Here’s another 500 word flash, an environmental dystopia set in the near future. Two desperate people meet by chance and decide to share their strengths for survival.
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The worst (well, one of the worst) thing that can happen to you in art, or anything you care about, is to get it right the first time. When beginners luck hands you a good outcome on the first try, your impulse on subsequent attempts is to keep swinging for the fences, totally unsure how…
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Something about passing an important bill to rectify some bureaucratic regulatory overreach and save Florida citrus growers from strangling in red tape. Growers are asking the FDA to change the Brix standard for pasteurized, not-from-concentrate orange juice to 10%, down from the draconian, tyrannous, not internationally competitive 10.5% it’s been since 1963. Brix standard just…

