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Strange Wind: The Man With Hammered Nails for the Pupils of His Eyes

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God called me to the Fantastic. His Shekinah made me weird. Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The Man With Hammered Nails for the Pupils of His Eyes. I'd been chopping most of the day. Chips of granite spread at my feet, dusted my sweaty shirt, clouded my spectacles. But I'd made progress. The boulder had scars on it: closer, certainly, to the monument I wanted than it had been that morning. He blinked, one lid catching, and slowly crossing over the nail. Why do you have nails where your pupils ought to be? Light ...

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Strange Wind: Which Zombie Will You Be? [Personality Test]

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God called me to the Fantastic. His Shekinah made me weird. Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Which Zombie Will You Be? Every zombie movie has a set number of zombie types - a horde, a random guy, the first one to get shot. But these zombies were once people, you know, with lives and dreams and ambitions. Which one will you be? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Note: About Quentin the Troll. He was last seen loping through the cast iron jungles of south central North Dakota. Blood of Ambrose, by James Enge.

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Strange Wind: The Wicker Man Made Me Follow Jesus

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God called me to the Fantastic. His Shekinah made me weird. Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The Wicker Man Made Me Follow Jesus. Mike Duran's thoughts on The Wicker Man. Not only does The Wicker Man serve as a warning against spiritual naivete and complacency, it illustrates the stark, very real differences between world religions.". And I would add that it does it with the literary and visual mastery of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, C.S. Lewis and Fritz Lang,. The thing I did not expect - no,. Light at the Ed...

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Strange Wind: Not Since Straub and King: Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee Team Up

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God called me to the Fantastic. His Shekinah made me weird. Saturday, April 17, 2010. Not Since Straub and King: Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee Team Up. I've got no details from the 2010 Gathering in Chicago. But Ted Dekker's brand manager just mentioned. That Dekker and Tosca Lee. Are teaming up for a book in 2011. Needless to say, the last time writers. Of this caliber teamed up, the world got a little surprise called The Talisman.*. The last time heroes. UPDATED: Dekker spills his guts on it. Fear of Girls ...

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Strange Wind: Josh is Five. Josh is Always Five.

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God called me to the Fantastic. His Shekinah made me weird. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Josh is Five. Josh is Always Five. The Locus-winning classic short tale by Harlan Ellison, has long held a melancholy spell over me. (It is on page 71. And the book takes a little while to load). At a party, Ellison overheard actor Jack Danon * saying something like "Jeff is fine. He's. But thought he said "Jeff is five. Jeff is. Danon, incidentally, started his career in radio shows, like. Fibber McGee and Molly. Quenti...

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Strange Wind: Character Creation: A Man in Third Heaven

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God called me to the Fantastic. His Shekinah made me weird. Wednesday, February 27, 2008. Character Creation: A Man in Third Heaven. Paul writes this to the Corinthians, almost as an aside. Oh, by the way, I know this guy who went to heaven. So, how's life going? Did you see the big game? This is a great example of introducing the supernatural to a story. Paul isn't writing fiction, but relaying a history, of course, but the principle he employs applies to storytelling. Shelley does it with Frankenstein'...

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Strange Wind: Gremlins vs. Zombies: The Grempocalypse

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God called me to the Fantastic. His Shekinah made me weird. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Gremlins vs. Zombies: The Grempocalypse. The worst thing that could ever happen is that you get your pet gremlin wet* on the same night that a radioactive thunderstorm turns all the dead people into zombies. Yet, there's a market for these spectacular, doomed experiments in fantasy:. Alien vs. Predator. Zombies vs. Robots vs. Amazons. Mermaid Yakuza vs. Terminator. Wolfman vs. Dracula. Moriarity vs. Fu Manchu. Winne...

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Strange Wind: Somewhere at the End is Not the Beginning

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God called me to the Fantastic. His Shekinah made me weird. Thursday, May 13, 2010. Somewhere at the End is Not the Beginning. At the end of a long hall filled with treacherous traps, a man finds that he has returned to where he started, and before him is stretched out a long hall that is filled with treacherous traps. He has risked his life to travel in a circle. His heart sinks. Some might say that stories are circles: if the end doesn't bring you back to the beginning, it has failed perfection. Foreve...

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Strange Wind: Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy

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God called me to the Fantastic. His Shekinah made me weird. Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy. Short Fantasy Fiction took a massive beating last year. Two premier fantasy publications, Realms of Fantasy. And the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Anthology. Ceased publication. Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. Switched to bi-monthly publication to stop its own bleeding. Chief among them. But short fiction authors wouldn't mind a map to redemption. The Cathol...