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A Poetry Chapbook

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I assume:      That I'm scheduled to be run over by a streetcar soon since so many pleasant things have been happening to me lately.      The most recent—I just signed the contract today—is a poetry collection of mine that's due to be published this summer by the interestingly named Island of Wak Wak Press .      On their website, they define a chapbook as "between 20 and 50 pages of poetry," something I didn't know till I began this whole process. What I ended up submitting has 63 poems spread out over 51 pages, but I guess that was close enough. The title is Two Strikes, And I'm Out , and it focuses on a hapless 1st-person narrator trying to make some sort of connection to the outside world. In the first half of the book, he reaches out to a talking animal, fantasy world, and in the second half, to a computer-driven, science-fiction world. I don't wanna give anything away, but the title perhaps foreshad...

Of a Feather, Pg 56

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Yes. What could possibly go wrong?

Of a Feather, Pg 55

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Maybe our two plot lines will actually start coming together now? Maybe?

Terebinth, Page 1,823: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      Oh, c'mon, Lamont: you're trying to tell me that "fraught" doesn't rhyme with "pot"? Is that what you're trying to tell me?

Of a Feather, Pg 54

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Everything always comes down to etiquette around here, doesn't it?

Of a Feather, Pg 53

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Yeah, if you're looking for "ordinary," Captain, I think you're in the wrong place.