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Excerpt
Kellin first noticed the space aliens on the shelf beside the canned chili in the Safeway three blocks from her apartment. The plain white cans displayed the universal space alien symbol above the block-lettered words SPACE ALIEN, in English and in Spanish.
"Jan," she said, unable to look away from the rows of sharp-chinned, triangular faces with their slanting, almond-shaped eyes. "What's this?"
"Space aliens, what does it look like? Is this the chili you wanted?"
Bio
Raised in the Late Cretaceous by Tyrannosaurs. Discovered mainframe computers only a millenium or two before they were destroyed by the comet. Evolved wings and feathers and adapted to microcomputers. Went to work for Microsoft. Attended Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1995, an experience best described by the Gary Larson cartoon of a dog successfully dodging through dense traffic to join the other dogs, one of whom shouts "Yay! Rusty's in the club!" Went back to work for Microsoft.
Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, I wrote poetry in high school and almost died when my well-meaning English teacher made me read it to the class. As a math and physics major in college, I sent a story to Analog and got a very nice rejection letter. I also plotted a multivolume fantasy series and a multivolume science fiction series, both as yet unwritten.
Can these two realities be reconciled?
Publications
There are some scattered nuggets of wisdom in the .NET Framework Class Libraries at MSDN Online. As far as I know, all the dinosaurs that appear there are mine.
Writing Description
Scarce.
Goals
As manga characters are prone to say, "...." As Gary Larson's mathematicians might calculate it, "Here a miracle happens." As I might say, if my boss twisted my arm behind my back and demanded an answer, "I will start at least a story a week. Ow! If I finish a draft of one of them, I'll be happy. Ow, ow, ow! I'll write in the early morning, every morning, for at least half an hour before I start work!"
I have no fundraising goals. If I write at all, it will be a miracle. Granting the possibility of a miracle, it's only a small step to someone noticing that I'm writing and deciding to pledge millions to Clarion West Writers Workshop.
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