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fiction online

I am slowly–in spite of myself–being drawn into online fiction: serials, flash, created myths and legends.

Like:

City of Glass by Liana Mir

A serialized story about space, glass, and nanotech–and four women in a city of shattering glass.

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Wing-Feather Fables, a collaboration between photographer Brenda Gottsabend and writer Lisa Ahn.

Brenda provides the visual inspiration, and Lisa the fable to go with it, in 500 words or less.

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Writer Unboxed’s 7 Sizzling Sundays of Summer Flash Fiction Contest

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Do you read fiction online? What are your favorites?

 

7 things about me

I received a Versatile Blogger Award from several members of my WANA class: Julie Kenner, Cindy Bell, and Liv Rancourt. Thanks, gals! You’re sweet!

So, according to the rules, I need to post this cute little icon (happily grabs), link to the person(s) who nominated me (done! see above), tell people seven things about myself (see below) and pass on the award to 5/7/14 other people (er…how about three?).

Seven things about me:

1. I’m bilingual. I speak English and Urdu–the language of Pakistan, the country where I grew up. Hands up if you’d heard of the language before reading this post.

2. My husband and I got engaged in Hong Kong. We spent a month there and I loved it. Would love to go back there someday and take the kids.

3. Currently, I have a 2-liter bottle full of soil and grass seeds on the window sill, and steelwool rusting in a small bowl of water on the kitchen counter. These are otherwise known as the “What is a Biosphere?” and “Why is Mars Red?” experiments. Why yes, I am a homeschooling mom! Why do you ask?

4. Apparently, when I was a wee little tot, I had a pet lamb (Rabia had a little lamb, little lamb… no, it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, does it?). I used to ride it, and it would butt me affectionately in the tummy. It was scared of my mom’s high heels and would run and hide if it heard her coming. It would also eat clothes off the line. But the little lamb grew into a great big sheep and it was given away (or turned into dinner, I suppose).

Or so they say.

I have no recollection of such a pet, and I still wonder, to this day, if it is not a hoax perpetrated upon my gullible younger self.

5. Speaking of perpetrating hoaxes: When I was a preteen, I convinced my 5-years-younger brother that we were all a family of witches who’d been sent to earth to study humans. However, since he was born without magic, we’d have to leave him behind when we returned to Witch Land.

He was most upset.

Oh, I was a horrible sister. I’m better now.

6. I have this weird squicked-out can’t-look-away fascination with giant squids. And titanic battles between sperm whales and giant squids in the black depths of the ocean.

7. I take my tea the British way– black tea with two spoonfuls of sugar and a splash of milk. And biscuits to dunk into the tea are mandatory (I use Ritz crackers, since I can’t find any of the brands I grew up with here in the US, boo).

I pass along this award to:

  • long-time reader Liana Mir
  • long-time reader and fellow HTRYN-ite Prue at What’s it All About?
  • another fellow HTRYN-ite Lisa at Writing, Dreams, and Drops of Ink

this week in research

Dragon anatomy.

Cross-section of the spine.

Atmospheric structure and high altitude sickness.

What did you learn this week?

linkfest: human ingenuity

Sun, sand, and… a 3D printer? It’s like a glimpse into a Star Trek future.

Why yes, it is possible to lift up a house with balloons. A teeny house. With weather balloons.

Some people make model airplanes. And others build rockets: 121, 000 feet in 92 seconds.

The days of the eyeglass-and-mustache Mr. Potatohead disguise are numbered: Japanese company comes up with realistic 3D face replicas.

Does it come in German Shepherd? BigDog

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