From: Michael Copeland (m.copeland@vannayinstitute.org)
To: Charlie McGee (charliem@irinafoundation.org)
Sent: Wednesday, 11-25-09
Subject: Quick heads-up

Don't know if you saw the peice in The Guardian, but King is considering a sequel to the Shining. Danny Torrance at 40 working as an orderly in a hospice in NYC. Based on what we know about the ( Read more... )

"So what do you think?"

"It hangs together." Michael is nuking a mug of hot water so he can pour hot chocolate mix into it; the cordless phone is a heavy weight in his hand. "It certainly hangs together."

He can hear murmured side conversation, and then Greg is back. "So... what comes next? What do we do?"Yes. That is the question. And it's his ( Read more... )

It's Todd's apartment, his two roommates having cleared off for Boston together. He's got the most space. Tara brought the beer, Janet brought the takeout: from Ali Baba's Turkish Cuisine on Second Avenue, for the nostalgia value. Jason brought a large-size bag of Funyuns. Greg Toman brought seventeen Stephen King novels and a stack of those ( Read more... )

From: Neil Harkham
To: Constant Readers
Sent: Wed 4/28/2009 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: safe as houses

I've finished reading Janet's initial digest of the Danielewski work, and I have to ( say... )

In his mind, he sees a conference hall; Twilight Hall in Middlebury, Vermont, where he presented his first paper once, long ago. High ceilings and woodbeams. The audience is packed, and if not with the usual suspects, so be it. He's in a suit and tie, not his pajamas, and there's a podium and a glass of ice water ( Read more... )

CALVINS

The original five:
* Michael Copeland . Forty-six. Prior to January 1, 2009, he was the head of the Tet Corporation department referred to officially as Research & Analysis, and unofficially as the Calvins.
* Andrea Faber Wilkes . In her late fifties; vaguely grandmotherly, vaguely Angela Lansbury.
* Janet Creeque . Mid-thirties, the ( Read more... )

Janet's apartment is a studio, but it takes the casual visitor a moment to realize that; she's set up almost-ceiling-high bookshelves to create the semblance of internal walls, partitioning off a closet-sized "bedroom" from the only slightly larger "living room" next to the kitchen. They've had full meetings here before, but not often; the ( Read more... )

NYMinute

Psychic Takes Spill
A HOMELESS Tarot card reade
was clinging to life last night
after mysteriously collapsing i
front of police in Howard
Beach, Queens, witnesses and
police said.Note to self: check obitsThe man, whom neighbor ( Read more... )

From: Greg Toman
To: Constant Readers
Sent: Thurs 1/1/2009 9:37 PM
Subject: Well, here we are

I hope I got everybody's non-work edress in. Sound off, folken?

From: Jason Parker

To: Constant Readers
Sent: Thurs 1/1/2009 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Well, here we are

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( Janet Creeque is 35. )