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November 2021

638 words! It's not even half way to target, but it's 638 more than I wrote in October. Half past nine, and the Midsummer party had fillled the first…

September 2021

This one started from 'a warehouseman with a personal doom prophecy’ and drifted a lot. First I decided that the prophecy would make him afraid of cats…
The generator for this one was ex-wife x time travel x slaying the monster. I considered making the ex-wife the monster but… maybe when I've had more…
Where do I get my ideas from? Sometimes I pair randomly selected careers with types of conflict. Here’s what came out of pairing forester with theology…
I have a note here that must have been a story idea. A poet embedded herself with trust fund spiritualists at the home of a man of state whose letters…
Tell me a story about how people use charity. Say there's this ongoing contest, present day or hereabouts, & some billionaire (not the one you're…

July 2021

Welcome! I am new to newsletters, somehow, despite being about a hundred and forty in internet years. I still haven't decided whether this is going to…
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