Lousy with Words

Chinese Whisperings update

2009-11-27T23:28:27Z

Just a short post to say thanks to everyone who has emailed me asking about ordering information for the Chinese Whisperings anthology, "The Red Book". There has been a slight delay in the release of the book, so it won't be released until January 1, 2010 for e-book formats and January 10, 2010 for print.

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Chinese Whisperings

2009-09-24T00:03:20Z

A number of people have commented that I've been relatively quite here on the blog-o-sphere and so I wanted to let you know what's been going on.

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Of the People

2009-08-29T15:54:26Z

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on August 28, 2009 which was: "(A new Government research and development facility is built on a decomissioned prison site"

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Tornado pics

2009-08-09T01:42:46Z

I know for some of my friends here, this is a duplicate, but I thought I would share the few pictures I have from the tornado here a couple weeks ago. You can view them here:

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Massanutten Vacation 2009, Day Eight

2009-08-03T12:57:55Z

Saturday, July 4, 2009

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Music in the Air

2009-07-18T14:06:28Z

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on July 17, 2009 which was: "(your character) stops on the way home from work and purchases a unique musical instrument -- why today?"

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Massanutten Vacation 2009, Day Seven

2009-07-10T02:43:38Z

Friday, July 3, 2009

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Massanutten Vacation 2009, Day Six

2009-07-09T02:31:30Z

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Massanutten Vacation 2009, Day Five

2009-07-07T02:44:12Z

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Massanutten Vacation 2009, Day Four

2009-07-04T02:48:42Z

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Massanutten Vacation 2009, Day Three

2009-07-03T03:55:41Z

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Massanutten Vacation 2009, Day One the Second

2009-07-02T01:28:04Z

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Massanutten Vacation 2009, Day One

2009-07-01T01:32:43Z

Saturday, June 27, 2009

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Freefall

2009-06-19T19:23:53Z

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on June 19, 2009 which was: "(your character) closed his/her eyes, took a deep breath and jumped."

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WOW... Wait, I'm Confused

2009-05-11T23:33:32Z

So, tonight I was driving past the reasonably new (read: within the last year) WOW supermegaplex place on Route 130 and was surprised to see a big sign shouting: Free Valet Parking today!

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The Unauthorized Biography of the Tooth Fairy

2009-04-11T03:38:50Z

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on March 20, 2009 which was: "A dentist is stabbed while waiting in line at the movies."

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Just One of the Girls

2009-03-30T01:49:52Z

So, I've long held that despite being male, I am just one of the girls. Lacking any real evidence of this, though, I've been forced to use more anecdotal facts to try to persuade the non-believers among my various acquaintances that this is, in fact, true. However, it seems that my distaste for monster trucks, my lack of interest in barbecuing and the unnatural-to-some number of female friends I've had throughout my life (about 90% of my friends have been female over the years) is not really a confirmation of my membership in the Just-One-of-the-Girls Club of America .

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Soul Searching

2009-03-21T20:07:40Z

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on March 20, 2009.

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Voodoo Stew's New Stimulus Package

2009-03-14T14:09:56Z

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on March 13, 2009.

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Peace

2009-03-07T14:21:38Z

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on March 6, 2009.

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This Cannot Be Real... Can It?

2009-02-19T13:51:26Z

I saw this and I am... dumbfounded. I wonder if the original post in this thread is legitimate or not. But some of the answers are quite funny, even going so far as to provide mathematical equations for determining weight.

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Percival's Place

2009-01-08T03:20:04Z

Have you visited Percival's Place yet? Percival's Place is an exciting blog dedicated to Percival, a pig that is very dear to me.

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What I've Been Reading

2009-01-04T03:44:30Z

Since I've been pretty much tied to my spot on the couch or chair for the past week as it has hurt marginally less to sit than to do anything else, I've been able to read a few books. I figured I would share my impressions with you about these books in case you might wish to borrow and/or obtain them for yourself.

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Broken Promises

2009-01-03T04:22:52Z

This was written for the [Fiction] Friday prompt on January 2, 2009: write about a New Year’s resolution that’s broken in the first 24 hours

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How the Mighty Fall

2008-12-27T21:50:44Z

It is amazing how awful it is when you throw out your back as I seem to have done a few hours ago. The debilitating pain in my lower back, while nowhere near as bad as the average headache I've dealt with since I was six years old, simply makes it impossible to do... anything... and brings me to a halt like virtually no headache can. One stupid little muscle group goes wacky and all the workouts at the gym to strengthen the rest of them simply do not matter anymore.

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