I first read “The Beast-Jewel of Mars” in a collection of Leigh Brackett Mars stories, The Coming of the Terrans. While I enjoyed all the…
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I’ve been reading old pulp stories, mainly by E. Hoffman Price. A few of them are spicy stories. That was the term for them. Yesterday’s…
I have mentioned here, and on Twitter, my daily reading but have not described anything in detail. The only part I have discussed is the…
It’s fun, ridiculous, and about cats. Cat Lady is a card game where the players take the role of cat ladies. The game takes pains…
This weekend I ran across the rare writing tweet I could answer. While Mr. Nevair was happy with my answer, I thought others might get…
I think I am misdefining a genre. At the very least either I’m looking at the seam between two genres or reading one a bit…
For over a week, most of the stories I have read as part of my daily reading have been by E. Hoffman Price. Among them…
Today is Cinco de Mayo, another double number day and thus time to review my Groundhog Day Resolutions. First, my efforts to become a calendar…
My daily reading has three parts. There is the Bradbury Challenge reading of one essay, one poem, and one short story every day. I read…
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Published by Herb on 2021-05-12In letters, we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires – this is…