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State of Play, Pg 35

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Thoughtfulness, is it? I suppose that qualifies as Hallowe'enish...

Two Poems and a Story

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The one poem that's free to read:      Is actually seasonal, too!      Though technically, you can't read it. You can only listen to me read it.      It's called "Hallowe'en Weather," and it's up now as part of the 2024 SFPA Halloween Poetry Reading . It's a little more than halfway down the page and has the picture you see here beside it. I put the image together from a couple public domain drawings I found on the internet.      The poem that you have to pay to read is in issue #128 of the magazine Dreams & Nightmares . The ordering instructions , as near as I can tell, don't say how much it is for a single print copy of an issue, but it's $1 for a PDF. I haven't actually seen the issue yet, but a look at the table of contents makes me think the editor may have left my middle initial out of my byline. The poem's called "A Ballade of Intestinal Flora," and it's also kind...

State of Play, Pg 34

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      I imagine Jo could be pretty destructive to a typewriter if she let herself get carried away. Fortuntely, our Jo would never do such a thing!

Terebinth, Page 1,801: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      We haven't got much of an audience around here to begin with, Lamont. Don't go driving them off like that!

State of Play, Pg 33

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      That whole present tense thing'll be the death of Jo yet, I reckon. Unfortunately, she'll prob'bly take all of us with her when she goes...

State of Play, Pg 32

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      We sure are supposed to forget about a lotta things this storyline.

State of Play, Pg 31

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      My only hope is that, two-thirds of the way through the storyline as we are, she doesn't decide to just start over from the beginning.

Terebinth, Page 1,800: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      Well, I didn't learn how to draw between last week and this, so I guess we'll all just hafta use our imaginations when it comes to the coyote city of Lawler. Sounds like, though, that Lamont's planning on using something else, too...

State of Play, Pg 30

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Hugging is so fraught with peril apparently.

State of Play, Pg 29

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      And everything was going so well! For a minute or two, at least...

State of Play, Pg 28

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      So many options!

Terebinth, Page 1,799: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      I guess I'd better learn to draw in the next week in order to present the promised panorama. It'll be page 1,800, after all!

State of Play, Pg 27

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      But didn't every past tense start out as a present tense? Or do philosophy and grammar not really go together?

State of Play, Pg 26

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Has "Gaah!" become a motif yet?

State of Play, Pg 25

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      I think Jo might be exaggerating the height different between herself and Tharka in this illustration, but I'm not sure. After all, Tharka is one of those tall, spindly jackrabbit types, and, well Jo's not the one doing the drawings, is she?

Terebinth, Page 1,798: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      There are just so many rules involved in all this!

State of Play, Pg 24

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      If only it were that easy...

State of Play, Pg 23

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      It always comes back to medication around here...