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♦ Obvious, yet somehow always surprising: Grading a midterm for a class of twenty leaves one with significantly more will to live than grading a midterm for a class of a hundred. ♦ It’s not that your story isn’t good, it’s that others are better. – A posh literary journal I can’t locate right now. Also,
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I hate it that Saturday is such a slow day on the web, so here’s my contribution to the fight against the contentless slump: I read Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter a few months ago, but never posted about it. It’s a sci-fi thriller and it’s really good. The title is stupid, has nothing to do with
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1st place ($10 Amazon gift card): BREW YOU by Ballpoint 2nd place, shared ($7.50 Amazon gift card each): RESILIENCE by Roseicapilla & ALMOST COST ME MY ACADEMIC LIFE by Distinguished Professor 3rd place ($5 gift card): … AND THE SILVER SPOON by Big boy blue Thanks everyone for playing! Distinguished Prof, if you want
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*fanfare* Here are the stories that were submitted to the Xykademiqz Short-Fiction Contest! They are listed in the order in which I received them. Please read them all and vote for your favorite in the poll below. I said there would be three; the fourth was belated, but I’m including it anyway. To the author
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I hate that Saturday is always the slowest day in the blogosphere. To counter the sound of crickets, here’s my offering for today. On Monday, October 2, starting at 00:01 EST, I will post the short stories that were submitted to our little contest. I only received three 😦 , but they are all pretty
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Last day today to submit your 300-word story. Stories will appear starting Monday, Oct 2, and the readers will vote on them — chance to get small prizes! SUBMIT YOUR SHORT STORY HERE Here are the rules: Please submit a short story under 300 words. 1. The submission should include: a) your pen name
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A former student of mine and I had a conversation right before he left; I remember it often. (The student has been working for a software giant ever since he graduated and he seems happy.) During the conversation, he said that the job that I have, which he characterized as having to come up with
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I am having a very hard time making myself work on what I need to work on. Two papers need to go out — they have been drafted by my students, but they are in a bad shape language-wise and I don’t have the time or the will for back-and-forths, so I need to edit
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I have a confession to make: I don’t watch Game of Thrones. I did watch season 1, and maybe even parts of season 2, but at some point I lost interest. It moves too slowly for my taste. I can keep up just fine by looking over DH’s shoulder to see what the characters have
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OK, I think I got the short stories out of my system for a little while, which means that I can get back to papers and proposals; those babies (well, more like cantankerous old men) aren’t gonna write themselves. Also, I will be back to blogging! Here’s the tally. Total: Nine stories written and submitted
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