Month: August 2012

A plum assignment

Today I planted my first ever tree. My first ever anything, in fact. A plum tree, no less; the Opal I gave my wife for her birthday. As appropriate in the Circle of Life, I first had to kill the less attractive tree that was in its spot. Next year, I’ll report on the plum harvest…

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Bird train

Odd: the apparently neutral pattern of circles on the train’s glass separator turns out, on closer inspection, to consist of crow’s feet.

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We have a winner!

“It all seemed so safe, and tranquil,” Richard Burton voices over in Jeff Wayne’s musical version of War of the Worlds. The lucky winner of the Prisoner of war “identify this fragment” contest and the recipient of a mint copy of Space & Time Magazine 116, containing Prisoner of war, is Paul Evenblij of Amsterdam. […]

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Welcome to the all-new Barno’s Stables site!

As of today, my writing website Barno’s Stables appears to you in an entirely new and integrated design. New pages and functions include: Integrated blog (florismk.livejournal.com is no longer current). Handy samples to get a taste of my fiction. Buy links on selected story and anthology pages in case the samples make you eager to own… […]

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