6 words. 1 memoir.

My pals over at Smith Magazine are putting on a six-word memoir contest!

From the site:

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. The result was "For sale: baby shoes, never used." Could be the title of your autobiography, or maybe your epitaph.

This strikes me as an excellent way to kill time over the holidays.

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Podcast of "Whooping it Up in the Uncanny Valley"

Adbusters hasn't yet posted my short story "Whooping it Up in the Uncanny Valley" to its Web site, but I just stumbled across a podcast of it. A podcaster who goes by the name X-Sister has recorded his abridged reading of my story and set it to music. While it would have been nice for X-Sister to get my permission first (ahem), I'm enjoying the results too much to get up in a wad about it. Enjoy!
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