Whatever Happened to Lala? The man in the house on the hill narrowed his eyes as the car rumbled up the gravel. It was tan-metal colored and rounded, unfamiliar. He couldn't see the license plate at this distanc
but I’m not sure. There is also the possibility that the BBS is re-analyzing how the exam is performing and you won’t find out if you passed for another month or so. That happened to me for my ethics exam, and it’s much nicer to know immediately how you did. I was in a bi...
After I graduated I was so lucky to win a scholarship for Dublin University. I say lucky, as I don’t actually know how my name happened to be among the 10 Italians who won that year. My dissertation wasn’t even about an Irish author, but I won. Apart from flight, tuition fees, ...
Democrats mock the plan. “It won’t work. Nothing will.” Republicans enact the plan. It works. Democrats and the media say that the improvement — which they previously said was impossible — was actually inevitable, and had nothing to do the Republican plan. This has happened over and ...
This is your fault. Well, maybe not yours in particular, but over the years enough people have told me I should write down whatever story I was telling them, I’ve decided to do it. Perhaps I am ill-advised. No matter. Bad advice often leads to interesti
In the doing, they find examples of how deep human cruelty and depravity can run. I’m sorry to say only the magical aspects of what I’ve written are fictional. The rest actually happened, and more frequently than most, myself included, wanted to know. Few reading this, especially on ...
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There are glimmers of real promise inUmma—some of the acting between Oh and Stewart are magical and crackled off my tiny JetBlue screen. I also appreciated the theme of filial piety and nods to Korean mythology. I got just a taste and wished there had been so much more. There just wa...
Curiosity motivated me to find out more about thewomen’s rights movement, which, I soon learned, was interconnected with theabolition movement. And in Boston, the same people who led those movements were mostlyUnitarians.Another thing I learned was that back then, the people who were part of...
What happened to the Young Lion of the Spaceways? For the last two years, speculative fiction fans have been shaking their heads over the mysterious implosion of the award-winning author once called John Scalzi. His sudden appearance and...whatever happened...on the literary stage redefined (...