Announcement
Best of Apex Magazine
I am very proud and honored to have my story “Keep Talking” In the Best of Apex Magazine Anthology. This story won Apex’s Story of the Year for 2014. The Oxford Cultural Review reviewed the anthology, and it ends with this Read more
Blathering
On AI and Boys
User almost_a_human wants to add you to their contact list. Accept? Ignore. User almost_a_human wants to add you to their contact list. Accept? *sigh* Well, it’s been popping up every day for a month now, I guess I’ll give this Read more
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Statistics
One of my favorite ways to procrastinate on writing is to generate meaningless statistics about my writing. I’m a mathmatologist. I believe that somehow, numbers will reveal the future to me. Recently, someone asked me the average number of rejections Read more
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Fanfic
I think that in the future, fanfic will be considered the literature of our age. One of the first things I ever wrote was fanfic, though I didn’t know it at the time. I was in first grade. I wrote Read more
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Life is Graded on Participation
As mentioned before, I was a medieval reenactment fighter (SCA). I was super bad at it, too. How bad? In ten years of fighting, the farthest I ever made it in a double elimination tournament was three rounds. For comparison, an Read more
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I was a teenage monster
In sixth grade, we were given the assignment to draw a self-portrait and then write six words that described ourselves. It was a lesson on adjectives. I picked “Obnoxious”, “Fat”, “Loquacious”, “Stupid”, “Grotesque”, and “lazy.” I was bitterly proud of Read more