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Whenever we’re traveling or on vacation, my family is known to whip out the board and card games, and it’s great. Because, you know, we get to talk and interact and drink beers in a way that doesn’t involve the television, and it’s good (if not always wholesome) fun.

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1. Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
2. The Fairy Ring: or Elsie and Frances Fool the World, by Mary Losure
3. Light in August (audio book), by William Faulkner
4. The Replacement, by Brenna Yovanoff
5. On the Night You Were Born, by Nancy Tillman
6. The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010, by Peter Dendle

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bright and yellow, glinting over the horizon,
making the snow glare. Each step, brings the crunch,
crunch of ice beneath my feet. Winter

is a reprieve. We stand side-by-side,
watching our breath curl, smoky, into the air, listening
the whisk, whisk, whisk of the saw,

the rich scent of sap perfuming
as the tree collapses in a spray evergreen needles.
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Last night was out big party night and we all dressed up. I decided to go as a zombie, so I took a white men’s tee-shirt, cut it all up, and used some artist’s charcoal and a can of costume splatter blood to make it look like a proper zombie costume.

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Don't remember if I've mentioned Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead on her before. If I didn't, it's a huge oversight, because this comic series is fantastic. The story follows Rick Grimes, a police officer, who wakes up from a coma to find himself in a zombie infested world.

The books present the slow moving species of zombies (as they should be ( Read more... )

1. My laptop crapped out on my today. Makes it even harder to get some writing done, let alone get online and waste my time. (I'm currently in my local library.) I can't really afford to get it fixed right now, because of thing #2. In the meentime I'll just have to get some things written out by free hand. No problem. Ish ( Read more... )

( 5 books read in November )

I would like to say that the reason that I have no posted over the past several days was a sign that I've been writing wildly away at my Nano novel. I would like to say that, but it would be a lie. I have written nothing, well, next to nothing, in the past few days ( Read more... )