January 2012
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Bone Us Post 4
There was no helping it,...
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Boot Heels on the Bar Floor, Part II
“Can you dance?”
Condescending prick, she thinks and looks at his outstretched hand. If this had been the first time she’d seen him, she might have just let it go, hand and offer both.
But she was bored and she’d been watching him. His mouth was set and a little grim, but it still curved at the corners like a sturdy shot glass. Like he’d known how to smile once, but these days he was trying...
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Audio version of today’s Januariad story:...
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The Januariad 2012
The Januariad is a fiction project in which several somewhat foolhardy writers produce new stories every weekday in January. The pieces must be complete, readable and begun and finished during the 24-hour period of that day.
The project will, at the close of today, have just passed its halfway mark.
Tumblr is awash in fantastic writers. I’d like to introduce those of you out there to a...
Savage Imaginations: Porter's Notebook
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— Justin Porter (photo credit: Dan Mandell)
I met Justin Porter out near Tombstone, where he was standing knee-deep in a river of blood, panning for nuggets of story. He’s since moved on, upgraded his hardware, and now he’s doing the kind of work that requires dynamite, a steam shovel and blast goggles, mining a deep vein one wooden bucketful at a time.
You can hear angel...
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The continuing adventures of that miscreant scrap...
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Bone Us Post Three
After several weeks at Reader’s Digest, bored of t-crossing and lusting after those union jobs with their dots and their I’s, Januariad Post got into trouble.
Ain’t that the way of the world? Folks’ll say you can’t put a square peg in a round hole. That’s a lie and they know it. Shave it down at the sides and bang it hard enough, it’ll creak home, but...
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Audio version of today’s Januariad Post,...
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Audio version of today’s Januariad Post,...
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Last week I wrote the following:
Bone Us Post...
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Januariad 2012, Week 1
Well, the first week of the Januariad just drew to a close and those participating can draw a collective breath.
As a brief explanation, the Januariad is a writing project created by Jack Rusher in which those involved write new, complete and readable fiction every weekday for the first month of the new year.
Below are the tumblrs of the participating writers. Follow them, you will not be...
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Bone Us Post Part 2
Januariad Post got his leever stitched shut in the prison hospital. The guards had rescued him from the swarm of stories that jumped him in the yard, bleeding black by then and fading from the world.
He’d been reaching eagerly for that white light, put on his shades and everything, but the screws and the medics had other ideas.
Also they had staples and catheters, his blood type is AB negative...
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The Januariad 2012 (Dear God Where's my coffee?...
So,
January is here again and with it the Januariad in which a few intrepid writers post new fiction to their tumblrs every week day in January. The rules are that the piece must be complete and must have been written that day. New work starts tomorrow.
For tonight, I am re-posting one of my favorites of mine that was turned out last January. And for those of you following, these are the other...
Januariad 2012 →
jackrusher:
Every year a rotating cast of reckless writers undertake the challenge of crafting and making public one complete piece of prose — any form, any style, any length, so long as it’s complete — for each weekday in the month of January. The rules are simple: each piece must be written entirely…
