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The Scream Queen Is Bored — by Michelle Ross | Flash Flash Click
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Fast fiction for a quick lit fix. The Scream Queen Is Bored — by Michelle Ross. October 18, 2016. Out on the cabin’s porch, the morning after their first night of filming sequel number four. Hot out, only a fitful, feeble breeze like the hopeless breaths of the slain. The scream queen focuses her binoculars on a mangy squirrel scrambling up a pine tree, but then the squirrel disappears, and there’s nothing to see. If they were filming right now and she were the killer, what would be her strategy? She is ...
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July | 2015 | The Wily Filipino
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Monthly Archives: July 2015. Weekend Reads; also, Rereading, and Some Tweets on Tweeting. I am not a big re-reader, and I know I should be. I happen to read. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Once a decade for some reason not because I am a huge Le Carré fan or of the spy novel in general (I am neither) but because there’s a mystery in its patient rhythms, in how the story progresses through ellipses and silences, that I still cannot crack. I figure I will read Maria Dermout’s. The Ten Thousand Things. I rem...
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February | 2015 | The Wily Filipino
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Monthly Archives: February 2015. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail. As the waters fail. Job xiv. 11. From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1828 Edition. February 2, 2015. On Weekend Reads, Mid-October, Plus Some Thoughts on Myers-Briggs. On On eating balut. Proudly powered by WordPress.
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May | 2015 | The Wily Filipino
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Monthly Archives: May 2015. Weekend Reads: The Morning After a Couple of Guys Apparently Danced Around Each Other for a Lot of Money. The April 20 issue of. Was a bumper crop of gripping, if depressing, reading:. Oliver Sacks, on the late Spalding Gray: The Catastrophe. Luke Mogelson has a really funny piece of fiction, Peacetime. How is it possible that he can put on a reporter’s hat and write in-depth articles about ebola in Liberia and executions in Aleppo as well? More malfeasance, this time from my ...
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A Few of My Favorite Things, 2015 Edition. I’ll start with a downer: 2015 was an awful, miserable beast of a year, and bidding it good riddance and wishing for a better 2016 kind of strikes me as perverse magical thinking. Bad luck, human caprice, and institutional corruption and racism don’t really obey the artificial thresholds of calendar years. Continue reading →. December 31, 2015. Weekend Reads, Mid-October, Plus Some Thoughts on Myers-Briggs. The slice to open veins: to speak, write, survive.
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Weekend Reads; also, Rereading, and Some Tweets on Tweeting | The Wily Filipino
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Weekend Reads; also, Rereading, and Some Tweets on Tweeting. I am not a big re-reader, and I know I should be. I happen to read. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Once a decade for some reason not because I am a huge Le Carré fan or of the spy novel in general (I am neither) but because there’s a mystery in its patient rhythms, in how the story progresses through ellipses and silences, that I still cannot crack. I figure I will read Maria Dermout’s. The Ten Thousand Things. In the Mood for Love. I remember a...
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Epic Weekend for the Middle-Aged. | The Wily Filipino
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Epic Weekend for the Middle-Aged. So I’ve historically reserved Sunday evenings stressing out about the soul-crushing week of work ahead. This is obviously the worst way to end the weekend, so I thought I’d look back instead. And a visit from my daughter. Smaller pleasures all, though no less satisfying:. A healthy home-cooked meal (turkey meatloaf, tofu and spinach, mashed potatoes and bibingka made with brie, which kind of cancels the healthy part but I’m not complaining). Several rounds of Love Letter.
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Ten Weekend Reads; Also, How I Dedicated My Life to Satan | The Wily Filipino
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Ten Weekend Reads; Also, How I Dedicated My Life to Satan. 1 Sometime when I was 13 or so, I dedicated my life to Satan. I’m sure someone dared me to do it, but I don’t remember. Which means I had a witness my brother, or my cousin other than smiling or frowning deities, but I can’t recall for sure. Silence. Nothing happened. I was still there. I was still breathing. My head neither sprouted horns, nor was zapped by a bolt of punitive lightning. I had not been bestowed with powers of clairvoy...Years lat...
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June | 2015 | The Wily Filipino
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Monthly Archives: June 2015. Ten Weekend Reads; Also, How I Dedicated My Life to Satan. 1 Sometime when I was 13 or so, I dedicated my life to Satan. I’m sure someone dared me to do it, but I don’t remember. Which means I had a witness my brother, or my cousin other than smiling or frowning deities, but I can’t recall for sure. Silence. Nothing happened. I was still there. I was still breathing. My head neither sprouted horns, nor was zapped by a bolt of punitive lightning. I had not been bes...Years lat...
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December | 2014 | The Wily Filipino
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Monthly Archives: December 2014. A Few of My Favorite Things, 2014 Edition. Man where did the time go. It’s almost 2015 and I’m a year older. Continue reading →. December 14, 2014. On Weekend Reads, Mid-October, Plus Some Thoughts on Myers-Briggs. On On eating balut. On On Gerald Brittle’s “The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren”. Proudly powered by WordPress. Theme: Syntax by WordPress.com.