Ambiguous domain name of the day

Mar 10th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

http://www.marrymeabroad.com
Hmm.



Typo of the day

Mar 8th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

. . .Christian demoninations
Hmm.



Cod Philosophy live at Drabblecast

Feb 26th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

My silly short story ‘Cod Philosophy’ has gone up on great podcast zine Drabblecast. Drabblecast also featured my equally silly short story ‘Aqua Vita‘ last year.



A couple of ambiguities

Feb 24th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

The Age shows off its usual quality writing*:
Building unions fined $1.3m for legal breaches
But if they were legal. . .?
‘He jumped on his head with both feet’
How very agile of him.
*Yes, that’s a deliberate ambiguity.



Call for Polyphony 7 pre-orders

Feb 20th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

Taken from the Wheatland Press blog. Note that Polyphony 7 will contain my short story ‘The Possibility of Love’.
In 2002, the Polyphony anthology series debuted. Conceived as a short fiction venue for stories that would skate gracefully across the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, and literary fiction, it was quickly recognized as the standard [...]



Mondegreen of the day

Feb 17th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

Me: Hmm, my sister should think about becoming an informatics nurse.
Jono: A nymphomatics nurse?



Typo of the day

Feb 17th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

“Allopathetic medicine”
Oh dear. Hopefully I think before I speak more often than I apparently think before I type.



Scenes from the Second Storey

Feb 16th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

The cover for the anthology Scenes for the Second Storey, which will be published by Morrigan Books in September, has been revealed:

Here’s the spiffy ToC:
Dream Machine - David Conyers
She Said - Kirstyn McDermott
The Blind Man - Felicity Dowker
I’ve Seen The Man - Paul Haines
The Desert Song - Andrew McKiernan
Home - Martin Livings
It’s All Over - [...]



Typo of the day

Feb 12th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

From a WIP:
“sucked up by the vortext. . .”
Clearly, I’m the queen of the portmanteau neologism.
And also:
There were even those who refused to set food on what could be considered the ground here. . .



Ambiguous web address of the day

Feb 9th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

http://www.freelanceworkersexchange.com