Category Archives: writing

Accidental Theology (or Zoology)

Posted on March 10, 2023 by JE

Typo of the day: amle (for an intended male). Amle looks like a real word, but I’m not sure what it’d mean. In OI ama is “to vex, annoy” so maybe Amlé would be like Purgatory for Norse Gimlé (“High … Continue reading →

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Old Moon 1 & 2

Posted on March 9, 2023 by JE

These monochrome beauties came in the mail today.

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Them Dry Bones

Posted on March 9, 2023 by JE

I misread an Old Norse word bœnhús (“begging from house to house”) as beinhús (“bonehouse”), and now I can’t get that wrong word out of my head. Maybe, in an upcoming story, Morlock will be trapped in a bonehouse. It … Continue reading →

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The AI of the Beholder

Posted on March 6, 2023 by JE

I swear, if I see another article anthropomorphizing/deifying/demonizing AI, I will… well, not read it, I guess. This trendlet is really getting tedious. Adam Gopnik has something in the New Yorker this week about AI, which isn’t completely wrongheaded but … Continue reading →

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Turn Up This Cruched Way

Posted on March 4, 2023 by JE

Typo of the day is cruch (where I intended to type crush). I figure cruching is like crushing, only with more crunch. And maybe you need a crutch afterwards.

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More Morlock

Posted on March 2, 2023 by JE

I made a couple of sales in February: “The Venomous Sands of Amas Lamaar” to Tales from the Magician’s Skull (slated for issue 13) and “Evil Honey” to Old Moon Quarterly (slated for issue 3).

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Romance and Murder: DOROTHY L. SAYERS, HER LIFE & SOUL by Barbara Reynolds

Posted on February 21, 2023 by JE

In summary: This is the best biography of Sayers that I have read, or am likely to read.

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Invasion of the Stochastic Parrots

Posted on February 20, 2023 by JE

Apparently enough fatheads were taken in by the chatbot hype this winter to flood electronic submission portals with chatbot-written fiction. At last there’s an option for the person who’s too dumb or lazy to read but who thinks they can … Continue reading →

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