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Does Pornography Promote Male Domination?
I take it that the debate on pornography and its effect on society is at least a few centuries old. There have always been a certain group of people vying to define what is ‘good’ and to control what...
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Nietzsche on The Art of Suffering Well
Yesterday, I was talking to a friend about this and that, and talk eventually turned – as it seems to do a lot these days – to the subject of happiness. After we exchanged a few superficial words about...
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Flash Fiction: An Unfinished Story
Back in 2008, Livejournal conducted a flash fiction contest where 500-word-stories had to be written on the theme: journal. They gave us a sop saying that all selected stories ‘might’ go into a...
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Novel Excerpt: Man on a Bike
Some scenes have a way of sticking in the head, like signposts. This one, taken out of Banquet on the Dead, is one that is close to my heart. My father, after having read the novel fully, said, ‘This...
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2 Different Ways to Achieve Self-Confidence
One of the entries to my contest on mythological characters spoke about conformity and individual expression. Here’s an excerpt from the comment: The character is Tyler Durden, the protagonist of Fight...
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Questions on Female Feticide that We Must All Ask Ourselves
Feticide. Saving the girl child. Killing in the womb. I was at the movies the other day. Before the main reel began to roll, they showed us a short film of a female fetus singing from the womb to her...
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On Saying Thank You
Back when I was working for IBM, after a particularly grueling client meeting, my boss and I went out to lunch. After we ate in silence for a while, each nursing our own thoughts about the massacre...
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First Look: The Puppeteers of Palem
Back Blurb The village of Rudrakshapalem awakens, and tells her tale. Five friends return to the village of their childhood to find that nothing seems to have changed, and at the same time everything...
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How Do You Combat Envy?
Last week, I came down with a bad case of envy. It hit me without warning. One moment I was perfectly happy scrolling along my Facebook wall, and the next thing I know I am suddenly burning all over in...
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What I Learned From My First Million Words of Crap
Last week, on Friday, 26 June 2015, sometime around noon, I wrote my millionth word of finished fiction. I did not realize it immediately. But I keep a running word counter on my computer, and when I...
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