An alternate history of January 20th, 2009
My first professional story, "From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left" (F&SF, February 1993), was set on Inauguration Day, 2009. Thank God the real 1/20/09 is...
HistoryA collection of 12 posts
In these hallowed halls
I left work a little early yesterday to attend a press screening of a film I'll be reviewing next week. The screening room was located in the Brill Building, I was delighted to discover....
Liberté, egalité, fraternité!
Happy Bastille Day! Last year on this day, █████ and I were in Paris watching marching bands on the street and fighter jets overhead trailing tricolor smoke. You know, I could do with a nice Armagnac outside...
Beware the eve of the ides of August
Meme via holyoutlaw: Search Wikipedia for your birthday, minus the year. List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year each occurs. Neat Facts: * 1040: King Duncan I of Scotland...
Yet another memoir excerpt—I call this one "Prophet Sharing"
[Looks like marriage is in the air. For more info on what the heck is going on here, click here.] The modern church has plenty of embarrassing historical specters hanging around, but few haunt it the...
An excerpt ripped bodily and without context from Chapter 31
For the remainder of the hour, Elder Fowler and I wound Buddy Van Rijk in an increasingly constrictive net of dogma, woven from strands—even by Christian standards—of ever more tenuous logic. It was the...