Email spam, our favorite thing on the Internet to hate next to horrible Japanese porn and fanfiction, is undergoing a revolution of epic proportions. Just as the development of photography led to great innovations in painting, the advent of Bayesian filters has brought the art of spam to a whole new level of sophistication. One [...]
Folks, even student magazines have standards. The New Yorker we ain’t, but we do have to reject stories every now and then. Sometimes submitters do things that make the decision to cut really easy. Then they’ll whine later about the magazine never accepting anything they submit, because obviously they are staffed by a bunch of [...]
There’s this guy in my fiction writing workshop who’s a dick. This should be nothing new to anyone who’s ever been in a writer’s workshop; out of a room full of misunderstood artistes and wounded expressive souls, there’s always that one guy who is King of the Egos – he’s hot shit and everyone else [...]
She wakes up this morning fearing death. Not the abstract kind of death, the kind firmly in the depths of one’s subconscious when one is only twenty-five and still maintains a healthy cushion of invincibility, not the inevitable kind that is still at least forty years away. This was dread of an immediate visceral nature, [...]
