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For Greg Stachowski, who asked. ________ She does her initial sketches in blue grease pencil; always has. She picked up the habit, she tells you, from an old friend who used nothing else, altho...

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Prompts: Beading, bucket seat, gather The raindrops on the roof were definitely slackening. Not that they had been hard drumming to begin with; more soft, splattering impacts that carry with the...

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The Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore ran a short story competition recently; I don't know how recently, but I picked up the notification in the mail: Short story. 1000 words.  On th...

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I'm up to 10,000 words and 4000 behind my personal quota. I'm actually having fun, but there is just so much work going on. Next week should go faster. From today: "When someone gives you an o...

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Prompt: A flash about a broken bone. Time: 1000h to 1020h "I still can't believe you thought you could just walk on in." Curzo slid the bottle across the tabletop to Tor. "There's a reason it ...

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Trigger phrase: The wooden bench was... The wooden bench was not the best projectile. For a start, it had been bolted to the floor; for another, there wasn't much in the way of grip to get a ...

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Prompt: Liturgical, Cadence, Burnt Start time: 10:25 pm End time: 10.45 pm The chants never stop in this land, with its sparse white clouds streaking overhead in a soundless gale, the barren g...

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The whole question of is fiction realistic/ authentic? is, to my mind, misguided. The thing about fiction is that it does not need to be realistic. What it needs to be... is subtler. Fiction i...

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Prompt: Fairground Attraction Start time: 10.29pm  Finish time: 1100pm The roller coaster shot overhead in the eveining skyglow, greased wheels clattering against expansion joints, the solid h...

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"What the hell do you think you're doing?" "Your people tried to get me to leave. I took exception." "So what do you want, tough guy?" "I would like, very much, to speak with your daughter. Fi...

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Time taken: 10.20pm t o 10.40 pm I am aware it's not Friday. Sue me. Prompt: Sober, northern, blade _________________ "Stay down." Redgrave's voice was flat as he got to his feet. "I don't n...

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Prompts: catalyst, cranked, catty deviation, flickered, curve Time taken: 8.20pm to 9.00 pm I caught her on the downslope , at the moment that all the extra power from her six cylinders was hel...

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“We,” Tor said slowly, “are not welcome here.” The evening sun slanted in through the windows of Hesperia, golden light unfiltered by the stained glass some of the west-facing buildings affected...

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Always aim for the stars. Even if you miss, you're bound to get a bodyguard.

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Tor woke to pain. The cramps shot along his back, through his limbs, down to his fingers and toes, locking him into a fetal tuck. A familiar sensation, sneaking up on him every winter Damned J...

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I managed to process my photographs today. So here we go: Delphinus, in the Summer Triangle, had a nova go off last week. Naturally, my students are working on higher-magnification images, but i...

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We brought Xueling to the Science Centre today, where I ran into my students (they were escorting some exchange students around). I'm not sure who was more surprised, them or me, but I think I de...

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Trial run. Mobile device. Working?

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There's nothing unique about any day, I suppose. You don't know until you get up if it's going to be a special day, and most of the time it isn't. So any day is as good to start at this new plac...

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