To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.
When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.
If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.
Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?
Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.
Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.