Part FIVE?! Will no one stop me?! Someone call The Hague! An international crime is occurring. Okay, I’ve stopped.
No! Wait! I’ve begun again! Part FIVE of this fascinating tale begins…. NOWISH!
But first, check out PART ONE, PART TWO, PART THREE, and PART FOUR. You’ll be glad you did!
Continue reading “Disposable Fiction – The Rabbit’s Last Stand: Part Five – LUDICROUS!”
Let’s call this story “The Rabbit’s Last Stand”-adjacent. It pertains to the world, but maybe not the story. So here is my little digression while I get the longer story together. PART TWO and PART THREE are available too!
Once Doug finished disassembling his Nemesis rifle and packing it into his case, he sat down on the rough fabric chair in his hotel room. His back was already hurting.
He’d scored well enough on the ranges, spent years practicing. It was finally time to enter his new career. He’d always wanted to be an assassin. It was something he’d dreamt of since he was a child. He’d never had any problems hurting things.
Continue reading “The Rabbit’s Last Stand SIDEQUEST – The Short Career of Doug McDuff (Part One)”
Note: No-Draft Theater is an exercise in improvisational fiction. I intend to write short pieces of fiction only one-to-three posts long, no outlining or other preparation, with each post around a thousand words. These pieces of fiction will only go through the most cursory editing.
“Well, then, what do you really do, Dad?”
He smiled wanly. “I am a Liar, Susana.”
Note: No-Draft Theater is an exercise in improvisational fiction. I intend to write short pieces of fiction only one-to-three posts long, no outlining or other preparation, with each post around a thousand words. These pieces of fiction will only go through the most cursory editing.
I asked Representation Project staffer Cristina Escobar what happens when boys read only books by males, about males. She said that they will be “taught that girls are objects, that they are prizes that they can win,” and that “boys go out and do things and girls sit back and wait to be rescued.”
This “Weekend Redirect” takes you to Caroline Paul’s excellent article about the need for boys to read “girl books.”
The BIGGEST minutiae 