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Originally posted on Foil & Phaser:
The collection of short stories that we did for our NaNoWriMo workshop is live for download. Divide and Conquer Volume One is available now for FREE at Smashwords and is coming soon to other…

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Prophecy? No, Thank You. Part Three

Here is my story from Divide and Conquer. You can find this and other great stories at Foil & Phaser. Coming soon as an ebook. Part One It wasn’t until the next afternoon that they reached the scorched earth that

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Prophecy? No, Thank You. Part Two

Here is my story from Divide and Conquer. You can find this and other great stories at Foil & Phaser. Coming soon as an ebook. Part One Cravan’s face turned an even brighter shade of red. “What do you mean,

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Prophecy? No, Thank You. Part One

Here is my story from Divide and Conquer. You can find this and other great stories at Foil & Phaser. Coming soon as an ebook. Cravan idly swirled the last bit of his beer around in the bottom of his

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A Shift in the World, Part One

Originally posted on Foil & Phaser:
by Heather Baver Evenings, after dinner time, were the worst. Most of the retirement community was “plugged in” in the lounge. An electronic bingo game was in progress in the back corner. A tall,…

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Divide and Conquer: Now The Stories Can Be Told

Originally posted on Foil & Phaser:
The collection of short stories that will be showcased on this blog in the next few weeks are the product of a Foil & Phaser workshop. The project, titled Divide and Conquer, consisted of a…

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Be a Good Sport (or I’m a Bad Canadian)

So, I don’t like hockey. Shhh… don’t tell anyone, or they may kick me out of the country. Or burn me alive. It’s fifty-fifty at this point. People get very passionate about [insert local sports franchise here]. They like to

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Posted in Blog, Demented Dialogs, I'm Just Saying

Greetings and Salutations (and Other Insincere Forms of Expression)

Dear Reader, To begin with, can we stop using the word Dear. Dear means beloved, precious, priceless, or rare. I don’t have that kind of relationship with my phone company, nor do I want one. We can still be friends,

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Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting, Word Nerd

Bathroom Humour (or Sanitized For Your Protection)

I’ve found a new low in etiquette, and it’s people who put others on speakerphone in public washrooms. Yes, that has happened to me on more than one occasion. Thank you, kind sir, for putting me in the embarrassing position

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Expressing Yourself in the Age of Consumerism

With a computer in nearly every home in the industrialized world, instant access to a worldwide repository of visual images, and freely available software to manipulate those pictures, it was only a matter of time before people started making dumb

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Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think

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