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The result of my fourth #bookstorewindow fiction writing exercise, inspired by the late Harlan Ellison, based on writing prompts supplied by Craig Pittman, Colchek, and Gareth Harmer. Wrote it live on our Slack site in about an hour and a half: The Herbert drifted above the dark forest of thick green grass stalks, a fat…
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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…
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…
