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The result of my second #bookstorewindow fiction writing exercise, inspired by the late Harlan Ellison, based on a writing prompt supplied by Lamia. Wrote it live on our Slack site in about an hour: The bathysphere Anapos had descended to a depth of six miles into the Nyaban Abyss before the barbed tentacles looped around…
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The first I heard about Harlan Ellison was from my Dad when he gave me a used copy of Dangerous Visions from Jerry Cooper’s First Amendment bookstore near the drive-in off Highway 50 in Union Park. I was a teenager at the time and a Star Trek fanatic, but didn’t yet realize that Ellison authored…
Originally, my online persona of Brody was inspired by the police chief in Jaws who warned “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” I was so much younger then. So energetic. All-night roleplaying marathons? All I needed was a two-liter of Mountain Dew and a bag of Doritos to get me through the weekend. And, over…
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It’s been a little more than a year since OtherSpace made the shift from MUSH to Slack. Here’s what I’ve learned: Slack’s a great connector for community We’ve been able to re-forge old ties and make some new ones with players on Slack, talking about our lives, jobs, movies, books, TV, politics, even parenthood. Slack…
