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So I used the time I am spending inside my house – covid, and toxic air, and all like that – in order to try and earn some money. I am doing critique reports for manuscripts through an agency that … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2020
The Long Frame by Steven Popkes The Invader’s ships didn’t conquer – they destroyed. Those caught at the Connaught Range fought to the last. Connaught Range had a secret laboratory. When there was no hope, the soldiers, civilian researchers, and … Continue reading
As far as we are concerned, summer 2020 pretty much sucked. We had a pretty severe drought. That was problem enough in the best of years. It put an enormous stress on our fruit trees as well as on the … Continue reading
As a gardener I spend a lot of time with plants and dirt. While putzing around the garden beds, I interact with them in a way that one might call emotional, or even personal. Take the Avengers—plants, that is. The … Continue reading
Thor, Bear dog, and I celebrate our beautiful Mount Baker Wilderness, and send best wishes to the those fighting the terrible wild fires burning our U.S. West. 2020 continues its ravages on so many levels, but there is still so … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) In comparison with last week, the punishments we’re looking at this time around aren’t about hurting or controlling the body — at least, not as their primary function. Instead, they … Continue reading
If you’ve read much historical fiction set in Great Britain, you may have run across the word Michaelmas—there’s Michaelmas term at Oxford and Cambridge (and Eton, for that matter), and Michaelmas fairs, and Michaelmas geese…so just what is Michaelmas? Michaelmas, … Continue reading
I’m fascinated by beginnings. That is, the first words that fall into a reader’s brain when she opens up a book. Not all stories have evocative openings. I was bemused to find that some of my favorite novelists do not, … Continue reading
MAN DROUGHT ENDS! Heaven doesn’t remember them, Hell doesn’t want them, and horny women are after them. Can the slackers teach Jeff and Mutt enough to satisfy the women they love? It’s raining angels and demons!
Continue readingOne of the most important considerations if you’re building a house is materials. In the past you’d almost always build out of local materials. It’s just too costly, to haul stones or logs or whatever very far. So if … Continue reading