Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
So the end of the year is coming up and I haven’t written anything here in ages. A couple people I know have been asking for lists of good short fiction from podcasts, so here’s the stuff I’ve listened to in the past year and thought was good enough to pass along. It’s all genre fiction- science fiction and ( Read more... )

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
Joey Comeau usually does get it right.

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
I wish that there was some way to guarantee that the archeologists of the future who dig up the remains of our civilization only find a copy of “SkyMall”. I want SkyMall to be our civilization’s legacy.

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
I have an alternate history story I want someone to write. These are its components:

• Gore elected in 2000
• Gore assasinated before WTC attacks
• Lieberman has to deal with WTC attacks

How would things have been different? I am not very good with this sort of political fiction, but I know some of you think about it ( Read more... )

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
I’m working on a not very top secret project that involves the creation of a city with three schools (a good school, an evil school, and a community college). I need names for buildings, streets, stores, restaurants, bars, clubs, etc. Names for buildings and streets are the most important. The good school has ( Read more... )

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
I have always been somewhat puzzled by people who said they knew things “like the back of their hands”. I never really understood what that meant. I have three freckles on the back of my left hand and the faint blue of a vein, a scar between the knuckles of my first and second finger. I only can say that ( Read more... )

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
In case you are wondering, here are some of the things that have been inspiring me for the zombie things and the things that have been influencing the writing style.

• Laura Podolnick’s “Dissertation On the Concept of Forever Starting Tonight, Explained in the Second Person, To an Ex-Lover, a Best Friend, and The ( Read more... )