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QFTOD part 3rd

I’m grieved to report that my co-author has not given up on our joint project, and continues to contribute to what might have been a spine tingling psychological mystery were it only the work of my own brain. We’ve recently … Continue reading

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QFTOD 2nd installment

I feel like I’ve probably mid-judged my beloved readers, underestimated their taste and aesthetic standards, possibly insulted the years of loyalty they’ve shown Sperberspeak by introducing a coarser element into my fantasy sci fi novel; “The Quest for the Orange … Continue reading

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Revamping the Book to sell

I know there has considerable enthusiasm amongst the hypothetical reader (s?) of this blog for my serial novel “The Quest for the Orange Dragon” but I’ve decided to completely scrap everything I’ve written so far and start anew with my … Continue reading

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Showdown at Mama Lupita’s; TQFTOD continues apace

As much as I would like to celebrate the glorious return of winter to the valley by returning to bed to “hypernate”, as I call power sleeping, I feel compelled to finish the powerful and ethically meaningful story, more accurately … Continue reading

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A new story arises like a phoenix from the ashes of the old

It gives me great pleasure to announce the beginning of a New Sperberspeak novel, a story that spent several years germinating in that teeming jungle I call my mind, a dark and fecund place that a number of family and … Continue reading

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Defeat! Shipwrecked! a lone survivor staggers along the beach, the smells of the ocean gladden his nostrils

It is with a surprisingly light heart that I make the following, somewhat staggering announcement: The Sperberspeak team, the Millcreek Synod, was defeated at the rolldown death match last month, and I have lost the rights to the Parkland to … Continue reading

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We’ve Rescheduled the last minute postponement

I have a diffident and half-hearted announcement to make: We’ve agreed to reschedule our gameplay duel, for November 20th. My adversary seems to have developed a numbers and percentages fetish, and seems to enjoy spewing out random odds about this … Continue reading

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I will continue to keep my part of a dead agreement: the Parkland, by Frank Sperber

I believe, foolishly I suppose, in old fashioned rules of gamesmanship, in obeying rules, in following agreements, in keeping promises. I made an agreement with people who I know from experience do not believe the same things, who see agreements … Continue reading

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And just like that it dies with a whimper 

The real world, fully staffed as it is by depressingly rendered humans and callow beasts, overstocked with wearisomely ugly buildings and harassingly odiferous plants, has managed to disappoint me again. When you reflect, if you are one of the paltry scattering … Continue reading

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Mano a Mano, dice roll a dice roll

I have experienced one of those singularly life changing moments, almost on a level with the visitation on the road to Damascus, an experience so transcendently overwhelming that my self, my mind itself, has literally been changed in the twinkling … Continue reading

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