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@bruce-pendragon Jul 8, 2026, 8:34 PM UTC

Having the Publisher Over for Dinner

"Impressive," the publisher gushed. "Your novel about the serial killer eating the livers of publishers who reject his books? Brilliant! I'll run fifty-thousand copies, immediately." "Most gratifying…

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@bruce-pendragon May 13, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC

So... I didn't know I was supposed to post this, but...

Good day, all. I've been dropping in from time to time for about a year or so (maybe longer) to occasionally respond to a writing prompt or throw my hat in the ring for a #Zapfic50 challenge. And it…

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@bruce-pendragon May 9, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

"Miguel and the Ship" - ZapFic50 Friday | Prompt: "Gallon" (10 May, 2026)

"Why can't you Americans use metric?" Miguel snapped. I sighed. Four million dollars were gone, and I needed to know why. "Just explain it again, Miguel." "Your directions, senor, said to buy a galle…

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@bruce-pendragon Dec 1, 2025, 8:05 PM UTC

Knock-Knock

“The place is as quiet as a tomb,” Rafnir whispered in a tone that seemed to carry the fear that even a breath would awaken something ancient. “Considering what lives here,” Drevin answered back in t…

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@bruce-pendragon Nov 30, 2025, 7:06 PM UTC

Daily Prompt: "Impound the Ship"

"You've got to be kidding me," McLellan groaned as he surveyed the rusted heap of scrap duranium that was generously being called a ship. "This thing looks like it might have been spaceworthy, back w…

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@bruce-pendragon Nov 21, 2025, 5:24 PM UTC

Book Review: "Kat and Mister Hartford," by Sara Hart O'Brie

#### RECEIVED AN ADVANCED READER COPY IN EXCHANGE FOR A REVIEW ##### "Suddenly the ones who didn't do anything to help when I lost everything, want to rush in and 'rescue' me from the only man who di…

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@bruce-pendragon Apr 27, 2025, 9:42 AM UTC

Book Review - "Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier" by Joseph Plumb Martin (abridged by Robert Harris II)

# He's Done It Again! In an earlier post I reviewed Robert Harris II's abridged adaptation of Wells's The War of the Worlds, written for Ukrainian ESL students. Apparently it was part of a series cal…

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@bruce-pendragon Jan 17, 2025, 9:15 PM UTC

Book Review - "The War of the Worlds - Abridged" Retold by Robert Harris II

# I Don't Normally Like Abridged Works, But... In this case, for its value as an educational tool, I'm going to give this one props. Rare indeed is the serious reader who is not familiar with H.G. We…

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@bruce-pendragon Sep 18, 2023, 10:43 PM UTC

Why Spacing Matters: ZapFic50 Monday | Prompt: "Therapist" (18 Sep, 2023)

“It's one word, dammit. One, word!” The signmaker's apprentice, who wasn't more than 25, blinked at me and stared at his handiwork on my office door. “My name,” I said again, slowly, “is Victor McRae…

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@bruce-pendragon Sep 17, 2023, 7:35 PM UTC

What's He Doing Here? 5-minute freewrite

###### Written for the Freewrite 5 minute challenge "unusual dressing," 17 September #freewrite #dailyprompt If eyes are windows to the soul, I wonder why he keeps the blinds down. That was my first…

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