Form Is Function
Your friendly neighborhood process wonk takes a tour of structure as narrative.
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In Which I Manage to Avoid Corrupting the Youths
Sometimes the world is wacky and unexpected, as is its wont. Sometimes it’s even the good kind of wacky and not the oh for the love of blather what’s the new crisis? kind.
Pen Names Are eXTra (but this one lets me pun)
On a casual search, I came across not one, but at least two other Jason Kimbles with their names on books. Genre books, even.
The Story With a Long Title Took a Long Time to See Light
It’s been a minute! Both for blogging and for new story news. But hey, today we change both. I’m up for the third time over at Cast of Wonders. Does this make me a triple threat? Oh hey: spoilers. Go read or listen at the link if you’re averse to those, then come back here. …
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The Art of Making in “Copies Without Originals”
My ongoing, time-dilated reading continues. Which feels, oddly enough, almost appropriate for encountering Morgan Swim’s “Copies Without Originals” over at the newly-premiered Translunar Travelers Lounge. After all, this is a story which is on one level concerned with the ways in which art itself stretches across space and time. As usual for a wonk post, …
Embodied Art in “All the Gifts That Remain”
I continue to be hopelessly behind on my reading, so I’m only just now hitting Nicasio Andres Reed’s “All the Gifts That Remain” in Nat. Brut. Since I’m here, you’ll be unsurprised to find out I have caught some feelings about it. And as is often my way, I’m going to spoil some of it …
While you weren’t looking, Jessica Jones snuck in a queer happy ending.
Without a great deal of fanfare (thanks to Netflix announcing its cancellation before even giving it an airdate), the last season of Jessica Jones dropped a short bit ago, and like with the previous seasons, I sat down to get myself a heaping helping of cranky Jessica vs her latest full-of-himself nemesis while navigating the …
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Collective, Not Plural: POV in “The Good Mothers’ Home for Wayward Girls”
Yes, I continue to be woefully behind in my reading. And yet I still have feels and WordPress hasn’t cut me off, so I persevere in spilling my brain-insides onto the interwebs when said brain-insides begin bubbling. This time, a fairly spoiler-lite discussion about Izzy Wasserstein’s use of POV in her March PseudoPod story, “The …
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“Gennesaret” and the Crux of Humanity
I’m to spoil the living hell out of Phoenix Alexander’s “Gennesaret,” which I just finished over at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. If you’re like me and haven’t read this story from March, you’re averse to spoilers, and if you aren’t triggered by violence to children, go read it first. Otherwise, I’m about to prattle on. What’s …
New Story: If Only Kissing Made It So
“If Only Kissing Made It So,” my story about boys kissing and possibly time travel, is live at Cast of Wonders today, narrated by Max Gladstone. Yes, that Max Gladstone. To say this was a pleasant surprise would be whatever is more under than under in understatement. I’m just saying: the email listed the narrator, …