Category Archives: poetry

contest decision-making

Posted on August 1, 2009 by dichroic

I’ve been thinking more about the parameters of this poetry contest thing (see previous entry if you don’t know what I’m talking about). Honestly I had no idea there were so many decisions to make until I started considering them. … Continue reading →

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poetry contest

Posted on July 31, 2009 by dichroic

Spurred on by some recent discussion about possible reasons people might not be joining the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA, though the name is currently under discussion), I will sponsor a small poetry contest, with an SFPA membership as prize. … Continue reading →

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the usual topics

Posted on July 28, 2009 by dichroic

In the past few days I’ve been friended by quite a few new people on LiveJournal (I write entries to my own site, whence they are reflected to both LJ and Dreamwidth.) I warn you, the following long post is … Continue reading →

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When the others came

Posted on July 27, 2009 by dichroic

The newest problems brought back the oldest ones; for all their nebulous fears about what mutations might come when depleted ozone failed to block the gamma rays, no one expected werewolves and trolls. No one expected a scant generation from … Continue reading →

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signal boost

Posted on July 26, 2009 by dichroic

Over at spec_poetry there was a mention that a lot of blog-only poems don’t get much notice, that prompted me to do something. If the poems linked below have been in any way about speculative fiction I’d have posted links … Continue reading →

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geek fun

Posted on July 14, 2009 by dichroic

I just created a 24-slide presentation on Control Charts – not even how to create them, just how to read them. The really geeky part is how much fun I had doing it. And speaking of things I’ve had fun … Continue reading →

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villanelle: Cecily Neville’s Farewell

Posted on June 14, 2009 by dichroic

Note: This will make most sense to fans of Josephine Tey’s “Daughter of Time”. That day they rode away, I rather thought they’d all return to me in God’s good time. Men work while women wait, as we’ve been taught. … Continue reading →

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AWwwwww…

Posted on April 7, 2009 by dichroic

I felt a little off yesterday morning and so worked from home. During the day, I updated one website, completed three short presentations, attended four telecons and ran two of them, and also completed the socks I was working on … Continue reading →

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I *do* believe in fairies, I do, I do

Posted on March 16, 2009 by dichroic

Alice & Wendy Alice said to Wendy, “Your Peter got it wrong”. “He’s not my Peter!” Wendy snapped, then heard the words. “Hold on,” “Got what wrong? Which part? Aside from the obvious – I never could imagine why he … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 13, 2009 by dichroic

prompted by something abyssinia4077 said “because ye were strangers in a strange land” They taught us of gas and barbed wire: Of lampshades and ovens and trains, Forced labor and careful starvation, mass graves and torment and pain. And they … Continue reading →

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