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This is My Story.

February 3rd, 2010 · by John · 10 Comments

Once upon a time, the last star faded cooly into the dark universal night. It took hundreds of billions of years to die, but no one remained to count the eons. Eventually even the electrons died. This is not my story. Once upon a time, a sentient race was born under a sky full of [...]

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MoF Podcast – Episode 06: Short Story: Ties that Bind, Part 2 of 2.

August 28th, 2009 · by John · 2 Comments

[Apologies for posting this again, but I'm trying to work out some quirks on iTunes. Thanks to Mark for lighting a fire under me with his suggestion!] At long last, the second half of Ties that Bind! Because it’s been so long, here’s a link to the text and podcast posts of the first half. [...]

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Tags: Fiction · Podcast

Story and Podcast: Ties that Bind, Part 2 of 2.

August 27th, 2009 · by John · 1 Comment

At long last, the second half of Ties that Bind! Because it’s been so long, here’s a link to the text and podcast posts of the first half. I wrote this for a writer’s group I set up a couple of years ago, and special thanks to Isaac and David for critiquing the earliest version [...]

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MoF Podcast – Episode 05: Short Story: Knowing, In the Biblical Sense.

July 6th, 2009 · by John · 5 Comments

Today’s episode comes with a warning: I will be reading a story full of sex and religious innuendo, or rather, religion mixed with sexual innuendo. And guilt and sweaty palms. If you find any of these things offensive, you may want to stop now. Or you may want to continue listening. Feel guilty now and [...]

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Tags: Bible · Fiction · Podcast

The Bean, the Brew and the Buzz: A Twitter Creative Writing Experiment.

June 16th, 2009 · by John · 8 Comments

Here’s #004 in the wild (explanation in post): A few months ago, after getting a feel for Twitter, I wanted to see what I could do with it as a writer. I began tweeting a story. I am still in the middle of what I’ve tentatively named, “The Bean, the Brew and the Buzz.” Here [...]

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Tags: Fiction · Social Web

OMG, go watch Kings, now.

April 7th, 2009 · by xJane · 2 Comments

It’s got it all: atheism, spirituality, god, scifi, and good music!! Hulu’s got the first four eps up right now (and it doesn’t keep them forever), so go catch up. It’s too smart and too well written to stay on the air for long. It’s the story of Kings David and Saul transposed into a [...]

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If you could be anything you wanted…

October 23rd, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

One of the more popular genre of games right about now is a cross between full RPG and general story game. The most highly anticipated was Fable, where you start out as a young boy and grow into a hero…or a villain. And this was the major selling point: a slightly more sophisticated Choose Your [...]

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Music Monday: Still Alive

October 13th, 2008 · by xJane · 6 Comments

I’ve held off for as long as I could bear to, but it is now time to release this upon the MoF community. From the guy who brought us the classic office zombie song, Re: Your Brains and the classy May Day song, First of May, comes the geek classic Still Alive, the end-credits song [...]

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Spark: The A-B-Cs of SciFi

October 9th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

Here. A little heavy on the Star Trek and Star Wars, but still awesome. And honestly, what else is Q for but…Q?

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Bit Lit Crit

October 5th, 2008 · by xJane · 4 Comments

That would be “Bitchy Literary Criticism”. John & I were having a conversation about good books and the concept of “strong female characters”, as a reason I might want to explore the Sabriel series. My response was that I had been recommended Miyazaki’s manga/movies for the same reason, that the author writes “strong female characters”, [...]

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