Reading
My Favorite Things of 2015

My top four in every category (except that one I always miss). So much good stuff this year, it was incredibly hard to pick.

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Reading
Recommended Reading from July 2015

In July 2015, just now wrapping up, I read 61 pieces of 2015 award eligible fiction. Most of those were flash and short stories, but it included a few novels and longer-form pieces. These 9 are the ones that will stick with me most and longest, including my favorite novel of 2015 so far.

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Miscellania
On Gloating over Tragedy

Should you gloat about a news story? Here's a one-question flowchart: is there a victim? Then the answer is no.

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Publications
New story: "There Once Was a Lady" in New Myths

Happy new story day! Due to many things, most directly my lack of submissions late in 2014, I haven't been able to make many new story announcements in a while, but I am very happy to have "There Once Was a Lady" in New Myths Issue #30.

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Uncategorized
Hello (again) World

Hi there. I'm Ian, and this is my blog. You may THINK you've already been to my blog, but that must have been another Ian, or it may be that you were one of the five people who ever visited my previous home on the web, which shall not be spoken of again. There are […]

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