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Chuck Palahniuk
Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.
Created 10 Aug 2021
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Consider This: Tableau Horror04 Jul 2022 • 1 day ago • 2 0Maybe this is just a question of taste… Today we’re going to look at two novels. The first is The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons. The second is The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampir...
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Greener Pastures (43)04 Jul 2022 • 4 0Mrs. Terry smelled terrible. She almost shimmered with an odor of latex and iodine and sweat. First Luthor and the Dog had gone to Revere Consolidated to see her in her classroom, but the handcuffs lo...
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Try This: Lie to a Young Person04 Jul 2022 • 53 92Among the joys of growing old is that young people take what you say at face value. You = Witness To History. As long as it sounds vaguely accurate, young people will swallow it. Today I told someone ...
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Try This: The Soapbox30 Jun 2022 • 59 74First a hat tip to Suzy Vitello… In workshop decades ago Suzy told me that she pictures herself as three different people. There’s Suzy of the present moment. There’s Suzy of three days ago. And there...
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Greener Pastures (42)27 Jun 2022 • 13 0This writer is not Luthor. The night Three-Balls died, that Luthor wasn’t who I am today. Lived long enough, life is nothing if not revision. The writer of this, me, handcuffed to my destiny in a bed ...
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Ephemera: Lunch23 Jun 2022 • 86 45My dog, Egg, sitting in the window seat at a nice place awaiting her lunch. Taken minutes ago. This weekend is expected to hit 96 degrees F. I look forward to being inside, to print the new book and l...
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Voice Driven I21 Jun 2022 • 93 181First, an example of a plot-driven story… Just after I’d graduated from college, my father called to offer me a million dollars. He was a blue-collar guy working on the Burlington Northern Railroad, b...
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Ephemera: Last Night20 Jun 2022 • 46 33The view from the kitchen yesterday evening… That’s Crown Point on the southern bank of the Columbia River. Thanks to my bad focusing job it looks like a cross between Maxfield Parrish and and Bob Ros...
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Greener Pastures (41)20 Jun 2022 • 19 0Luthor phoned his dad to say he’d be staying over with War Dog that night. They needed a place to clean up, not just the dried blood of would-be fag bashers, but the evidence of dragging Mrs. Deel to ...
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