It was roughly a year ago that I decided to scale back my movie reviewing at Cold Fusion Video Reviews. I had a reputation through the B-movie reviewing community as one who posted new reviews like clockwork (I think it was mostly couched in the phrase, “He may be talentless, but at least he’s punctual”). However, I realized that not only was a weekly schedule cutting into time I could be using to write anything else (like all those novels I swore I would get to someday), but I was kind of using that self-imposed schedule as a shield to keep from writing all those other things. After all, the fans of my reviews loved me! I was a fish of at least noticeable size in a small pond! Outside that pond, there were monsters!
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5. The unnamed narrator of “The Nameless City.” Ah, a contrivance so awkward that… Lovecraft uses it several other times, actually. It’s merely “metaphor” or “allegory” that caused the presumably human artists to portray themselves in bas-relief as hideous creatures. No, really. 
Here are several mini-reviews of books I’ve recently read and written Goodreads reviews for; most aren’t long enough to comprise a full post here, but in the aggregate, they’re dense enough to choke a horse. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger — Engaging and readable survey of what life was like in Anglo-Saxon England as the meter turned over on 1000 A.D. — family life, marriage customs, religion, warfare, food, bathroom etiquette, government, etc. ***** 
*venerable, adj.: Anything on the internet more than six months old.
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The Good Men Project features a post by Jim Rigby, Presbyterian minister, entitled “
Granted, sometimes it’s hard to tell whether it’s the protagonist or the reader (i.e., you) who’s been spoon-fed all of the blatant hints so that the “shocking” denouement can be seen from a mile away, but I think in these cases it’s specifically the story’s protagonist (usually the narrator) who’s as dumb as a bag of hammers.
Since I had to go to the doctor anyway to renew my prescriptions, I mentioned to him that I just felt tired all the time. You know what comes next: blood test! The nurse took four vials, some for in-house tests and some for labs they would send to. One of the in-house tests showed my blood sugar to be high, but I hadn’t come fasting, so that wasn’t too much of a concern… nevertheless, my doctor wanted me to come back in for a glucose test when I could.
Just so’s you know, the second issue of the venerable* Arkham Tales is now available in MOBI and EPUB formats at Cold Fusion Media for free.
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