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Until recently, I was writing short flash fiction stories every week or two for The Daily Cabal. Now that the Cabal’s wrapped up, I figured I’d get back into the swing of blogging again with a couple debriefing posts on the Cabal experience. Here are my favorite twelve of the stories I wrote for the [...]

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Paul Pope’s Adam Strange serial was my favorite part of DC’s Wednesday Comics this summer. From what he says on his blog, those single-page installments shaped his approach to the bit of Dune that you can see full-size here. Among the things that I particularly liked are Lovern Kindzierski’s desert sky colors and the ornithopter’s [...]

I’m always a sucker for some revved-up, reimagined folk music, and have been checking out what I can find online by The Imagined Village, who do some great versions of English folk music. (It’s basically Eliza and Martin Carthy, plus assorted members of Afro-Celt Soundsystem, plus Sheila Chandra, plus Billy Bragg, plus even more folks [...]

Came across a reference to an interesting-sounding book, the Codex Seraphinus, an encyclopedia from an imagined world, in a cryptic alphabet and unknown language, but copiously illustrated. Wikipedia explains, and here’s a site by an enthusiast. I tried to summon one up via interlibrary loan, but (alas) the only copy in Maine is apparently non-circulating. [...]

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