Monday, February 23, 2009
Brief Begiining...
Next week, Susan vowed, she would, she would get to scrabble practice. Last week, she’d been ill. This week she’d been on deadline, with a poem and a story both due by weeks end. Something had to give and that something was, as it usually was in her case, fun. “Amusement,” she reasoned, “didn’t pay...
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Nanowrimo 2008 excerpt...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
A Monologue I Wrote for May Day
Author's note: I wrote this monologue for the Jobs with Justice May Day celebration. Two of my pieces were selected. One about the PCA unionization tht's taking place in Massachusetts and one about the writer's strike that ended recently. I completely made up this character and the director of Jobs...
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Thursday, March 1, 2007
The Miscommunication of Carrie Hyatt
My name is Carrie. I’m 8. I hear things, lots of things. Some things I shouldn’t hear. Things that would never be said if anyone else were listening, particularly anyone 8. But I’m not anyone else; the youngest daughter of John and Emily Hyatt. I have Cerebral Palsy. I don’t talk or walk. I can’t...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Mewl: My 2006 Namowrimo Entry
Author's Note: Shall I continue the story? My English name is Edward Wade. My original name is Mwel. You would consider me to be about 6 years old. I’m nearly all black, with just a bit of white in me. I’m skinny as anything, even though I eat and drink nonstop whenever I feel like it, even at 3:00...
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
Meet Cassidy, My Latest Main Character...
Author's Note: Here's a scene from much overdue (I've been writing it for over a year and a half, off and on) and planned wheelchair user adventure story. Think Alice and Wonderland meets disability rights fiction. Cassidy sighed. Her as yet unedited entry for the short story contest was due in...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2006
A Teen Queer Scene...
Author's Note: Shall I Continue with this tale? “But it’s my birthday,” I whined. “I don’t care,” mom said. “She can come to the party, but can’t sleep here.” “But she’s my best friend…” “Katelyn Rebecca Sando, she’s your girlfriend, as well as your best friend, and right now it’s the girlfriend...
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Sunday, November 6, 2005
Saving Ping Su, 2005 Nanowrimo Novel, Part 1, Early Draft
Danniella Dianne Divine was a feminist, a card carrying National Organization of Women member, a typical pro-choice 27-year-old liberal. The only thing that differentiated Danni, as most people called her, from most of her fellow graduate student friends was the fact that she was in a wheelchair and...
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Monday, September 5, 2005
A Story in Need of Your Help
Author's Note: Hey, bloggers! These are the two beginnings of my aborted Three Day (see my list blog for details on all the drama!) disability-centered science fiction novel which I hadn't really lost thankfully! I need your collective brilliance to help me pick which one to use. Background Notes:...
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Friday, November 19, 2004
Finally... A Mollee Excerpt
Author's Note: At last, a scene from my Nano novel, The Misadventures of Mollee that's good enough to post. The democratic school featured here is based on a real institution. Enjoy! “Wow!” Mollee breathed as The Egress Center came into view. To her, it seemed every color, event, and object possible...
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