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I’m male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since July 25, 2009. My reading interests include Fiction, Short Stories, and Essays.
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Help - Flame Wars as a Writerly/Destructive Diversion
It is sometimes necessary to turn from the unchanging road that one travels. Take the off ramp into an unrecognizable town, new and populated with unknown faces. Here, you can assume any role you want and such is at the crux of this telling.
Ah, a thread on a discussion site. It binds us together and conversely it can snap under the weight of varying viewpoints and vitriolic outbursts. Cliques and crews turn on one another. Mistrust reigns supreme and a certain claustrophobia takes over, as is the case when doing battle in close quarters.
The end game is the destruction of the site. This is best effected by a protracted war, wherein, there is no practical way back. All of the venom spewed cannot be reversed nor forgiven. One devastating tactic of a Flame War is the deployment of the quick burner. This results in a site that becomes thoroughly bereft of any meaningful user contact - every emotional connection is dead. The quick burner can take down a site in under two hours.
Reader Challenges - DailyLit Slogan
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Ideas - Reader's Challenge
Hello. Does anyone know where the winners of the Reader's Challenge are posted? Thank you.
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Reader Challenges - 50 Word Fright
New York City blackout wipes out the electrical grid. All the boroughs are laid low lights. Most of my family is house secure when the power sizzles dead. That leaves me alone under blue to blacker skies that gloom paint the streets. I start my journey home walking five-mile long…
Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography
Hell is my castle... look up.
Reader Challenges - Encounter with an Angel
All the Good Angels are Dead
What comes down from Heaven is a blur to most, but I see it take form. A hurtling figure, fire all around and the smoke of singed wings envelops the earth. I wonder aloud if this is my Death Angel. Landing, she shrieks out, “I am the Angel of Annihilation!”
Reader Challenges - Tea with the Queen
"The Lunatic Does the Queen"
Having grown tired of crumpets, the Queen decided to serve cake and much to Her Majesty's surprise as she started to cut the cake the most promient of rakes, Jack the Ripper, intoned smoothly, "That's alright Queen Mum, I'll do the cutting - do come closer."
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Don’t Wear Black to a Double Cross
He sent his wife. He owed me ten large for knocking off his partner. I got into the sedan. She pulled a heater out, squeezed and it jammed. I grabbed it and laughed. I ordered her to drive. Delores’ black dress was custom made for a soon to be widow.
Etc. - Author Norman Mailer Believed Murdered
24 July 2009
Author Norman Mailer Believed Murdered 5:28 pm EST
BOSTON (Reuters) - Little known to the literary world, an autopsy was performed on Norman Mailer not long after his death. The local authorities were acting on a tip. A young French woman who had been caring for the grizzled old author is the subject of an active investigation. The young lady in question, 23, has been identified as one, Marie St. Lachette. Detectives were only recently able confirm her true identity through the help of INTERPOL and confirmation by her boyfriend, Jacques Dumont. This confirmation was only procured after he was arrested for transportation of stolen goods. It seems as the duo, Marie and Jacques, were stealing items from the combative author’s home for some time preceding his death. In order to obtain a lighter sentence, Dumont told the police a rather sordid story of Marie’s murderous intent. Additional information is pending release.