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Today I knocked off one of the four freelance newspaper articles due on Wedneday. That might not seem so bad, except that I spent most of the day making calls and waiting for calls to be returned. I still have three freelance pieces to write and would like to work on some fiction, ya know.…

Christmas is over. Well, mostly. There’s still the spending of some gift certificates and gift cash and putting the decorations away, but the hard part is done. Maybe now I can find the time to get back to work on The Prometheus Syndrome. The Professor has created the zombie raccoon. A few more chapters and…

Will that man ever retire? Good Lord! Today’s match-up was one the Vikes coulda, woulda, shoulda won, but with the game tied, Favre led the Pack close enough for a game-winning field goal. Oh well. The man is good and the game won’t be as exciting when he’s gone. I did get another Christmas present…

Here I sit. My 2-year-old son sitting on my right thigh, my 4-year-old daughter on the left. The 12-year-old son standing beside the desk and the 10-year-old girl at a friend’s house. I’m waiting for the phone to ring so I can interview folks for the four freelance stories that are due next week. I’m…

Popular interests among sewedel’s friends 1. horror (21) 11. horror fiction (8) 2. books (18) 12. fiction (8) 3. writing (17) 13. fantasy (7) 4. movies (12) 14. science fiction (6) 5. music (11) 15. halloween (6) 6. stephen king (11) 16. goth (5) 7. vampires (9) 17. bookstores (5) 8. ghosts (9) 18. cats…

We’re getting our first snow of the season today. Nothing major — we’re supposed to get about one inch. I know   won’t even count that as real snowfall, but I bet the wind we’re getting is stronger than she’s used to. Yeah, that’s right. The frigid wind is battering Oklahoma just like Kevin Williams…

This is just a quicky to revise part of yesterday’s piracy rant. In most of the cases, I sent the pirates an invoice from PayPal demanding they pay a minimum of 1 cent per word for use of the material they stole. For the bastard who stole “Unholy Womb” and didn’t even give me credit,…

I did a Google vanity search on my name today and was surprised to find hundreds of links. As I scrolled through some of the pages, I was even more surprised to see that several of the entries contained the text of some of my short stories — most notably a couple of Halloween stories…

My predecessor used to call my employer Oklahoma Crazy University. It’s no freakin’ wonder. I have spent the entire morning digging up paperwork to justify how I handled the dance school’s Christmas show because somebody told the dean I held back on promoting it. Supposedly I was being politically pressured by somebody else on campus.…

Anyone remember the song lyric in the subject line? Anyone interpret dreams? I had an odd one last night, just before the wife woke me up to tell me the 2-year-old boy was crying (why wake me up when she was already awake?). In the dream there was an elderly couple operating some kind of…