Category Archives: Fiction
The Valentine’s Day Episode of “Glee” Was Really Not So Bad
Anyone who knows me knows I’ve kind of fallen off the Glee train. What started out as this super fun show about high school kids singing and dancing, has turned into a mess of tangled/unfinished plot lines, overly cheesy characters, … Continue reading
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Google > Bing
Today I learned from the radio that soma is a modern drug, also known as Carisoprodol. It’s a muscle relaxant and pain reliever. But I remember Soma as the drug in Brave New World that everyone had to take, that kept … Continue reading
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Maybe she thinks I’m stealing her Fung Wong menus
When our neighbor moved in, I admit that I entertained a little thought that we might become friendly. Not besties – I know I don’t need a bestie living next door – but I thought maybe we would be friendly … Continue reading
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MUSED – Published
Today is the spring equinox, which means it’s the date that the spring issue of MUSED, an online literary magazine, comes out. You can find the spring issue here. You can find my poem, “Bryant Park,” here. I’m chipping away … Continue reading
I hate when someone else gets the good idea first
There’s this guy who has set out to tweet an entire novel. Here are the salient points. He is tweeting 5 or 6 days a week. He started on 1/11/11 and intends to finish on 11/11/11, so it’ll be 10 … Continue reading
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November 30th
I know this is silly, but I’m inordinately proud of myself for completing NaNoWriMo this year. The past two year I’ve done it, I haven’t really written a “novel” – I’ve written more like “50,000 words that are mostly stories … Continue reading
National novel writing month
I don’t want to turn this into a month-long thing, but this is about Nanowrimo. I have a problem. I admire, respect, envy, and (yes, even) love the writing styles of Ira Levin and Emily Giffin, in particular among all … Continue reading
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The fuzz and the guts
My first speeding ticket happened when I was driving back from school clothes shopping in Ukiah with a friend from Mendocino. My third speeding ticket happened when I was rushing to Solano’s Beauty and the Beast rehearsal in Suisun City, after … Continue reading
Bryant Park 2007
I finally got all the old stuff off of my old laptop, and now I can go through it at my leisure and delete all the not-absolutely-necessary pictures and beginnings of stories and old AIM conversations. I’ve already unearthed some … Continue reading
Tumble Dry Low
Need to kill some time? I wrote this. You can read it and praise me. TUMBLE DRY LOW Setting: A laundry room in an apartment building. Anna’s clothes are in the dryer. She is reading a book. Robin comes in … Continue reading
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