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Dark Fantasy, horror, science fiction, some mystery, the blog of a fiction writer and poet. Updates on publication, writing, short stories and poems to come, occasional "lagniappes" -- free stories or poetry for readers' enjoyment. Started a decade into the century by James Dorr, a.k.a. James S. Dorr, "The Caveman of Computing," a bare bones, no frills blog, a quick homely read from the Cave Computer. But nobody said that caveman computing was going to be pretty.

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jamesdorrwriter · 7h ago

Scifaikuest Received with (untitled) Spring Haiku

This is the print edition first, since SCIFAIKUEST comes both ways, in print and in a different electronic edition. And the poem was originally called “New Growth,” but editor Teri Santitoro believes in doing things right, and real haiku — as in Japan — would not have titles. Wasted words, you k

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jamesdorrwriter · 1d ago

At the Movies: Dead Bodies; Avatar vs. The Angry Red Planet

I watched an odd Irish film a few nights back, DEAD BODIES (2003), about a guy who accidentally kills his ex-girlfriend (who had moved back in to his apartment because after they broke up she found she couldn’t get along with going back to living with her mother). So, because he’d pushed past her le

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jamesdorrwriter · 3d ago

Two Horror Poems Bought by Cover of Darkness

A bit of niceness: In what’s been an otherwise rather slow month, COVER OF DARKNESS has just accepted two poems to be printed next summer. “Surprise Package” and “The Vampire’s Rule, Or, Some of Your Blood, Mister?” are both dark humored pieces, the latter a horrorku not much longer than its title

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jamesdorrwriter · 4d ago

Peds: Updated Untreed Reads Contract Signed; Vanitas, Other Untreed Titles On Sale at BooksOnBoard

Untreed Reads’s electronic chapbook of PEDS (cf. April 2 and 3, March 8), while still a little ways away from completion, is now one step closer. I’d had a few changes in the contract I’d looked at last month, agreed to on all sides, but, due to the vagaries of life in general, the updated [...]

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jamesdorrwriter · 1w ago

Late Breaking News — Mystic Signals

I suppose this comes in the “Late News” Department: yesterday evening, approximately 20 minutes shy of midnight, there came an email from Carol Hightshoe of WolfSinger Publications apologizing for spacing out on sending submitters information on MYSTIC SIGNALS, Issue 11. This is a combined print i

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jamesdorrwriter · 1W ago

Meow! — Hunks Pounced on by White Cat Magazine

How’s that for a hokey headline? But then May is sort of a hokey month, summer-like, but not quite summer. Mellow this year for the most part, even started with a kind of vacation. Family . . . and Civil War fests . . . and space shuttles. Early summer session has already started at [...]

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jamesdorrwriter · 2W ago

Speaking of Science Fiction: Dark Of the Moon; Discovery Discovered

Back home from a long day of airplane riding, HWA Stoker Poetry Rules committee wrangling on a borrowed computer, two rejections on Sunday (one poetry, one fiction, such is the life) , but then a bit of good news today — or actually Tuesday a bit past midnight. The new mass market edition of FUTURE

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jamesdorrwriter · 2W ago

Daily Science Fiction Reviewed — Naughty or Nice?

I’ve been away from the official cave computer complex but have checked in on borrowed machines, including coming across a review, posted last month, of my DAILY SCIENCE FICTION Christmas Story, “Naughty or Nice?” (cf. April 13, December 28 2011, et al., including links to the story itself). The re

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jamesdorrwriter · 3W ago

No Particular Reason for Posting This — Maybe Call It a Lagniappe

slinking cat in storm creeps beneath the bed to hide – “There you are, Wednesday!” So that’s the kind of day it’s been, this first day of May, off-and-on thunderstorms as we look forward to a very warm next few days. Wednesday is in the kitchen now, eyeing her dinner — mine comes later. Then [...

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jamesdorrwriter · 4W ago

“Upstart Poets” Reading Last Night; Guest Vampire Blog Upcoming with Naomi Clark; Dark Moon Digest Received Friday P.M.

The “Upstart Poets” venue, previously held in the coordinator’s home, had changed to a somewhat obscure location called “The People’s Bar” which I, no fool, had made a point of scoping out beforehand. This is where I had been invited to read two weeks back and, as it happens, it turned out to be a

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