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“A Theatre”

Posted on August 14, 2021 by TMW

Available for free now at Beneath Ceaseless Skies (q.v., by all means) is my new novella, “A Theatre.” Let’s say a few words about its genesis...

Polemics/Scribbledehobble/Weaving and writhing

On being purple

Posted on August 28, 2019 by TMW

Nabokov calls them “bravura passages.” Somebody else somewhere else says “tours-de-force,” which is French for “feats of strength.” Same thing. The “purple patc...

Scribbledehobble/Weaving and writhing

Notes & sources (II)

Posted on May 3, 2016 by TMW

Well! And so there it is. A new story. Unlike most stories, which need at most a short headnote, what this one really wants is a bibliography. And an apparatus ...

Scribbledehobble/Weaving and writhing

Nightstand IV

Posted on May 29, 2015 by TMW

John S. Farmer. A dictionary of slang: An alphabetical history of colloquial, unorthodox, underground and vulgar English. (1980 reprint of Slang and its analogu...

Scribbledehobble/Weaving and writhing

Where do stories come from?

Posted on April 16, 2015 by TMW

Where do stories come from? Of course, the real answer is: You don’t want to know. But in this case I’m going to tell you anyway. One morning, towar...

Scribbledehobble/Weaving and writhing

Notes & sources (I)

Posted on April 12, 2015 by TMW

Maybe you’ve read the story “Sinseerly A Friend & Yr. Obed’t” and maybe you wondered how much was fiction, how much was fact, and h...

Scribbledehobble

Commonplace book I

Posted on August 26, 2014 by TMW

But what have been thy answers, what but dark Ambiguous and with double sense deluding Which they who asked have seldom understood. MILTON   If one had stu...

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