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Tag Archives: fiction
Writerly Whining
I’ve just finished fixing galleys of an anthology story made juvenile and riddled with errors by the editors, who evidently don’t know to from too from two, among other horrors such as inserted exclamation marks, italicized words that are also … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical Writing, Sample Essays
Tagged extruded, fiction, genre, hack, ivy league, literary, pandering, pen, plot point, pulp, Writing
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Nightmare Days on Autumn’s Cusp: A Miscellany
There are days when love is not enough, when you need justice, too. Those are the hopeless days when it’s best to hole up in solitude so you don’t hurt or kill anyone you might later regret having hurt or … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical Writing, Sample Essays, Sample Fiction
Tagged biographical fiction, Dream, existentialism, fact, Ficta Mystica, fiction, Gene Stewart, life, nightmare, reincarnation, reminiscence, Samael Gyre
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Not Ideas
it’s not your ideas ideas are a dime a dozen and unimportant. stop worrying about them. they are for trick fiction, for toy wind up stories. emphasizing or even noticing the “idea” is the most peurile skiffery imaginable. focusing on … Continue reading
A Ficta Mystica Rumination
I’m glad to have discovered my Ficta Mystica sub-strata as the basis of most of what I write because it frees me to trope from dark to light without changing my approach to fiction. Encountering the Other and blundering into … Continue reading
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Tagged clot of darkness, enlightenment, epiphany, Ficta Mystica, fiction, the Other, Writing
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A Review of Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi
In Floating Staircase, Islands In the Stream by Hemingway, who is saluted overtly, Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, and Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs, echo like footsteps in an empty house. Flannery O’Connor’s shade flits by. There is a whiff of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ficta Mystica, fiction, Floating Staircase, honest, horror, literary, mainstream, Malfi, mystery, review
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Quiet Kept
…More of what I’ve learned after thirty-five years of breaking and entering? First of all, there need be very little breaking if you’re alert to easy entering. People leave windows, doors, and garages open all the time. They forget to turn on security setups. They have big, friendly dogs socialized to meeting new people. A visitor to a dog can show up at all hours, they still love it…
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Tagged Ficta Mystica, fiction, Gene Stewart, Quiet Kept
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Witch Tree
…I told him this was a witch tree and that the spirit of a witch lived in it, and if he cut it down the witch would have nowhere to go… Continue reading
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Tagged Ficta Mystica, fiction, Gene Stewart, Tree, Witch
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King of the Sacred Lagoon
…As Compton dashed up the stairs to the weather deck, to see who had screamed and why, Lassiter headed downward a deck and along the central corridor. He reached the locked door, this time on his right, but had no need to use his key — the door was torn off its hinges. “Oh Sadie,” he said, following the slime trail… Continue reading
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Tagged Ficta Mystica, fiction, King, Lagoon, Sacred, Stewart
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