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Not For Certain
On the use of force
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Poderós
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Secret beacons
Like coffee drips.
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Cut Outs
I’m lying on the floor of Mall’s posh office, about five hundred stories in the sky. “We have a couple of colonization problems,” she says, her bare feet up on her huge desk. “Well, yeah,” I say. “Obviously. And, like, way more than a couple. It affects almost
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Blast Along Clean
You plead with me not to introduce Oxenberg Rassmuellengeri into this book, seeing as how we already have so many characters, and most readers can’t keep up with more than, say, three to five characters at a time. And I’m like, Fine fine fine. I’ll leave him
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NaNoWriMo 2023: NaNoWriMo Harder
So most of y’all know ‘bout National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) cos you’ve either done it yourself or listened to me drone on about it year after year. But in the unlikely case you haven’t heard of it, I wrote about it last year: And it’s
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You Wanna Live On a Farm
Where the sun shines on your face without fear of cancers. The ground calls to be worked, and the work is good. You are a man and a woman. You are alone, but there is no loneliness. Sometimes folks come by. The fruit is good, and the other animals are
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My Mind, My Body: How They Fit Together & Come Apart
An alternate on-ramp for this novel
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And the Voices Say ...
“You seem really lonely.” Well, I am. Or was. “There are too many characters.” Fuck off. “It’s too vague, and it’s cold. It’s very cold.” You know that one from Eight. “These people are deplorable, and I don’t give a shit about them.” Well, they loved
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Coming Soon: Ten Years Gone
In November, 2023, my first (completed) novel, Everything Fails, will be ten years old. Most writers hide their mistakes—or want to, anyway. Or, shit, I dunno. Maybe the writer doesn’t care, and it’s the publisher. Whatever. The thing is, you’re not gonna see most of the
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Coming soon: Under the Influence
I’m not sure we can ever really know exactly who or what influences us. Yet we can cultivate some awareness and peek in on what might be going on. So I’m starting a new section of Adventures in Secrecy called “Under the Influence” wherein we’ll do just
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The Liberation
Today we have the next chapter in a sequence of stories—what I call ‘story paths’—within my current work-in-progress novel, Teresa’s Backbone. The novel herself is part of a much bigger work called The Secret of Secrets. If this is your first trip down the Backbone, you may