Category: writing / books
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The Top Ten Words That Have Lost Their Innocence
Remember when we were young? We were fancy, free, and fancy-free. Back then, words meant what they meant. Now that we’re a little older, we’ve lost our innocence. The most innocuous words are now charged with meaning. Here are some such words—words that I can’t hear without giggling, ironically, like a school girl. Erect Facial…
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Double Book Review: Books With Weird Titles Edition: Wool and Draculas
Here are two books I’ve read recently, with not much in common other than having weird titles and being released directly to digital. Wool, by Hugh Howey Wool is the first in a long series of books about wool about people living in a mostly-underground silo after some sort of apocalypse makes the outside world…
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Snowmen
I’ve been going through my old Google documents as I organize my Google Drive, and came across the following CBC story contest that I entered a few years ago: We are looking for you to send to us a brief story (100 – 250 words) using the following opening and closing lines.Opening: “The snowman grinned…
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