Author: Kameko
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Metaphysical Gravity
I have a new story out today, included as part of a collection featuring Angela Amman, Mandy Dawson and Cameron D. Garriepy. Allow me to quote the publisher’s description: “Love is metaphysical gravity.” R. Buckminster Fuller A force beyond reason and the laws of nature, love draws us together in many ways. In these four…
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Out of Balance
They are beautiful earrings, silver spirals hanging from my earlobes, long and delicate strands of metal. They nearly brush against the tops of my shoulders. I both love them and hate them. Nikola is gone. He says he will return, and these earrings are his promise of that. Promises are nothing new to me. They…
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The Cartography of Desire
I started to write about this: The rain, pouring like a waterfall. Me in the yard, wearing nothing but a red sweater, sodden and heavy, leaving one shoulder bare and me naked below the waist. You on the porch, dry hands on the wooden railing, unable to look away. I’m cold in the wet…
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Pablo Neruda
I am in love with this: “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” — Pablo Neruda From 100 Love Sonnets
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1976
If it were 1976, the wastebasket by my desk would be filled to overflow with balled up and discarded bits of paper, torn from my typewriter and pitched without a second thought. I’m terrible with beginnings, you see. Everyone has something. What I do when I’m starting a new project is to put my fingers…
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Jonathan Maberry Interview
There is an exceptional interview with the author Jonathan Maberry over at the Smashwords.com blog, which I highly recommend. It’s very insightful and has some helpful advice on how to succeed in the self-publishing world, as well as some good stuff about publishing in general. Also, he’s apparently has about ten million things in print…
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Before Dawn
He sits across the table from her, the only light coming dimly from the three candles on the other side of the room. The room is sparsely furnished, only the table and the two chairs, and the thick candles stand upright on their bases on the hardwood floor. He doesn’t remember how he came to…
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Public Service Announcement
For the month of July, all of my published work is up for sale over at Smashwords for the mind-boggling price of FREE! I point this out both to let you know that, for the rest of the month, you can get FREE STUFF from me (did I mention that it’s FREE?) and also to…
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Happy Birthday To Me
It is my birthday today, and it does not start off on a very high note. I wake too early, with a terrible headache that feels like the ghost of Andre the Giant is trying to crush my skull like an empty beer can. On top of this, there is a pain in my right…
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The Artistic Process
“Oh my God,” Bez says from in my kitchen. “Have you been eating anything that isn’t bad for you?” I am on the sofa, in grimy sweat pants and a T-shirt I’ve been wearing for three days straight. “I’ve been writing. Nutrition wasn’t important. Productivity was.” “You’re living like a homeless person.” “I wasn’t living…