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• Poem-a-Day Collection 100% complete
• Secret Adversary finished
• The Enchanted Castle finished
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town finished

  fractured fairy tale Protagonist: the outsider who, as Doctorow said in 'Craphound', loves our culture's cast-offs and sees them as poems. The structure, also, is bits and pieces interestingly rearranged. My favorite part: the cast of characters- brothers A through G and his father the mountain, his mother the washing machine. The day I finished reading this, I picked up Gene Wolfe's The Evil Guest..and there one character took another one to a sentient mountain whose wife was 'let's just say a laundress'. Thanks for the plate o' shrimp! I posted this on 06 July 2011
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• The Life and Death of Seals finished
• Craphound finished
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• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom finished
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - A fractured fairy tale, and a plate o' shrimp

--Sorry for the double post, wish I could delete one of them!

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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - fractured fairy tale

Protagonist: the outsider who, as Doctorow said in 'Craphound', loves our culture's cast-offs and sees them as poems. The structure, also, is bits and pieces interestingly rearranged. My favorite part: the cast of characters- brothers A through G and his father the mountain, his mother the washing machine. The day I finished reading this, I picked up Gene Wolfe's The Evil Guest..and there one character took another one to a sentient mountain whose wife was 'let's just say a laundress'. Thanks for the plate o' shrimp!

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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - A fractured fairy tale, and a plate o' shrimp

Protagonist: the outsider who, as Doctorow said in 'Craphound', loves our culture's cast-offs and sees them as poems. The structure, also, is bits and pieces interestingly rearranged. My favorite part: the cast of characters- brothers A through G and his father the mountain, his mother the washing machine. The day I finished reading this, I picked up Gene Wolfe's The Evil Guest..and there one character took another one to a sentient mountain whose wife was 'let's just say a laundress'. Thanks for the shrimp dinner!

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Reader Challenges - 50 Word Fright

I slept, after having worked hard all day at inventing a terror.
In dreams I saw it all: the horror, the pity, how they bore their wounds without dying.
Waking, I found they hadn't, and might never, leave me;
Stranger, I implore you not to do as I have done.

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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - want more?

Thanks for posting--I sat down and read it in one gulp. Wish there were more stories from this universe.

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