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3 Days in Rome: on borrowing the lives of others for your fiction

by jeffrey | Sep 26, 2014 | Uncategorized

There is a running joke among authors. “Lookout, or I’ll write you into one of my stories! Ha ha!” I said it’s a joke. But for many authors it’s no joke. On October 19, 1998, The Author’s Guild held a panel discussion titled...

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Hiatus for Saragossa

Hello to the four or five of you who have been reading along with me as I have been serially publishing installments of The Saragossa Bottling Company. I have pushed myself since October of 2022 to have a chapter ready by Sunday at 11 a.m. every week, and have only...

The Saragossa Bottling Company – page 42

Ringo’s luck at dodging bullets had not changed. In the fusillade of munitions that bombarded the house in those pre-dawn moments, he took a bullet through the fleshy part of his left inner thigh. The blood poured so fast from the wound that he would have been dead in...

The Saragossa Bottling Company – page 41

“Before I start, let me get one thing out of the way. Bo, did it not occur to you that the gun that you held to my head was the gun that my father gave you?” What a way to start. She was upset with the rough treatment and accusations. Now she had our attention and she...

Publication announcement – “Under The Sun”

Hello friends! You may be wondering what happened to this week's installment of The Saragossa Bottling Company. Not to brag, but I was experiencing relief from the Austin heat, and an outstandingly fun time with my son and his new wife in the beautiful, forested,...

The Saragossa Bottling Company – page 40

Dimity gasped and stiffened in my embrace. Conflicted, I held the gun aslant to her head, just so she’d know it was there but not to...