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The Etymology of Fire
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Well, it’s been a minute, and I haven’t written anything here in ages. I wish I had news worth telling, but the year has not been kind. The past two years have been anything but kind, for that matter, and I don’t want to dwell on unpleasant things that have left me without the mental energy to be creative or otherwise do anything interesting. The past two years have been survival mode, pure and simply. Rest as much as the dreadful day job will allow has very much been the order of the day.
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Goodness, but it has been a while since I updated anything here. There’s not much to say about that beyond the fact the past year-and-a-half has not been fun. The closest thing to good news I can offer is I’ve finished a massive project over on YouTube. It’s not actually a big deal, I suppose, but it has kept me busy, keeping the merry wild winds of winter from beating me too badly.
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Way back in my undergraduate days, so we’re talking the bones and decrepit ruins of dinosaur land, there was composition workshop, and the less said about that sad attempt to crush the spirit, inventiveness, and personality out of our collective music-student souls the better, but I’m already drifting way off into the sunset, and this is only the first sentence, and it is already wildly out of control. How many conjunctions is that? Good grief.
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Heath wanted to be a goatherd. He was only good for shoving the dung. Chardonnay was a goatherd from a rival clan. A chance encounter would bring them together. Their worlds would never be the same.

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There’s trouble at the North American Biannual Short Story Writing Competition. Famous authors are losing hard, and nobody’s talking. Is it blackmail? Is it magic? Allison Merriweather, expert magician and investigative journalist, is determined to find out.

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What if your little cleaning robot started thinking for itself? What if it just didn't feel like following orders anymore? Who would you call?

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