Author: SGJ

Oh yeah: I’m not on Facebook anymore

Guess the body of this post is pretty much in the subject line up there.

Maybe again someday? Who knows. Just deactivated, didn’t delete. Wanted to see what the other side is like. But I’m still in birdland, should anybody need me.

And I’m on Litsy as well, having fun.

Not on Instagram, though. Reason? I never think of taking pictures. Jealous of an impressed by all the people who do and can, though. Or, maybe I should say, the only things I ever think to snap a pic …

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This is Horror

Wow, too cool—Mapping the Interior lucks into a This is Horror Award:

This Is Horror Awards 2017: The Winners

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Mapping the Classroom

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This week’s mail

Three books I have stories in (Devil got kind of damaged en route, but, I mean: shipwreck, right?).

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The Tax Man Cometh . . .

Have had an accountant for a few years, am now an LLC, but I never understood taxes even partway until this guy broke it down into bite-sized chunks for me and the world:


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‘Tis True

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Cool poster

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A Quiet, Well-Lighted Place

The Shining is great and amazing and permanent and iconic and all that good stuff, of course, but one thing it has going for it that very, very few other stories ever get is that it instantly activates our imagination—immediately upon hearing the premise, we put ourselves in that situation of being winter caretaker for a remote hotel, and then, before we ever read what King wrote, we’re writing our own stories in our heads: I’d sleep in a different bed every night, I…

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