Thank you, Mr Bradbury

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I’m not sure how old I was when I read my first Ray Bradbury story, but I definitely remember which one it was.  “The Veldt” made an impression on me that’s never faded, over more than thirty years of reading.  It was truly frightening.  Not because of the holographic lions killing and eating actual humans (I mean come on, really?)  The driving force behind Bradbury’s stories were the people in them.  The cold cruelty of the children when they are denied what they want, the desperation of the parents when they realize too late what they’ve created…it’s all so real. 

On June 5th of this year, Mr Bradbury passed away.  I was talking to a coworker who admitted he’d never read anything by Bradbury at all.  I was utterly stunned.  Knowing how many amazing tales he wrote, I just couldn’t fathom how anyone might have somehow missed reading any [...]

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June 26th, 2012 | Tags: , , | | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)

Buried treasure

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I found a lost treasure.

When I first became serious about writing, I was working on a Toshiba laptop (this was a while back, so it was a thick, gray monster of a thing!) Eventually, I upgraded to a thinner, nicer, younger laptop. One which had tons more storage capacity but did not have anyplace to insert a floppy disc. I promised myself I would eventually take all those discs to school (where old computers never go away!) and email myself the many documents saved therein, but I kept forgetting. Eventually the discs were tucked in a box and I stopped thinking about them until last spring when an editor (who’s probably given up on me by now! *grin*) asked me if I had any short stories. I pulled out the discs and started looking through them, surprised at all the work I’d let slip out of my sight.

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August 21st, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)