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Monkey Fist
I took a writing class last year. The class was about the habit of writing, rather than the craft of writing. As such, it had daily writing prompts and weekly discussions about our writing with various types of exercises to get you writing. One of the class assignments was to bring an inanimate object. I…
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Heavenly Potato
This is one of my earlier starts. I wrote this about the time that I first got excited about the idea of writing a {story|book|novel}. I had an idea that I wanted to work with, and I took a stab at getting started. Unfortunately, I submitted it to my wife and (eldest) daughter right after…
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Excerpt: Escape of the AI
This was a rough start of a story, that I started writing a while back. Since I wrote this, I have figured out how badly this story starts. Probably a good thing I didn’t finish, don’t you think? Ed was nervous. Today was an important day, but you wouldn’t know it to look at him.…
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Tells and Engs
Jilletta is a tell. It is all that she has ever known or cared to do. Yet she doesn’t always like her work. She is good at her work. She should be, since she is the daughter of the greatest tell ever. Her father was considered to be at the apex of the art. His…