Dispatches since 2005
The journal
Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 101 entries, all of them here in full.
January 7, 2006 · 148 words
Page 123
From Miss Snark’s Blog (who got it from Tribe’s blog) , I steal the following exercise. Here are your instructions: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around […]
Read entry →January 6, 2006 · 68 words
Calling All Martian Poets
Word has reached this office of the first Martian Poetry Slam. Commander Shannon Rupert and the rest of Crew 41 eagerly solicit your submissions by noon, January 9th. (Tight deadline, this.) Winners will receive “eternal glory” (and, we presume, no money). Winning submissions will be read aloud by someone or other and
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