Man is a social animal. It is therefore permitted, even if we don’t know each other, to disturb my simple errand with your conversation. I do not believe it too much to ask that if you do this, you first ensure that your overture is charming, informative, urgent, or sufficiently entertaining that it is excused […]
Originally published on Facebook on 18 March 2018. Story idea, one I do not have the patience to write (and which would be pointless to write, anyway, for reasons described down below): Some magical handwaving splits the world into two alternate versions of itself, one where the left-wing gets what it wants, one where the […]
There are a couple of things you can do, as a struggling writer of any level of talent from dire to genius, that will mark you among your colleagues as an asshole. There are actually way more than a couple, but these are the two I am thinking about today. One is declaring that you […]