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Backstories: “Leashing That Smart Mouth of Yours”

A beautiful Dalek mural in some strange and terrible land, probably Manchester.

When “Youthful Indiscretions” Doesn’t Really Get To The Heart of the Matter (Backstory: Originally published in the online newsletter The Hell’s Half-Acre Herald in 2000, this is the backstory for the famed Dallas Observer article by Jef Rouner on how my life has been, er, interesting. Oh, if only I had any idea of how weird my life got after the turn of the century…) As August begins, so does school…

Backstories: "Attack of the Mad Shitter"

Maybe Not the Superhero We Want, But Definitely the Superhero We Deserve (Backstory: the more things change, the more they stay the same. Written as the dotcom crash was really gaining speed, but before any number of horrible companies used 9/11 as an excuse to let the property owner change the locks while the executives ran to Rio, we’ve had nearly a quarter-century of More of the Same, punctuated only…