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One of the coolest items in Evanston Public Library Friends‘ fundraising “Armchair Auction” was immortality.

Jodi MacArthur

No, really: Immortality. And I got it on the cheap. Guess the market’s a little soft.

Any writer can offer immortality by printed word (mwa-ha-ha!), but this time it’s from friend Jodi MacArthur. I adore her spooky stories. And for a nice donation to the EPLF, she wrote me into one. I’m so excited to read it! My foray into fictional characterhood apparently involves being a librarian. (I’m good with that.)

Here’s a teaser, to whet thine appetite:

There is you. Then there’s the promise of who you could be. But what if you aren’t who you think you are? Margo Gremmler bends the rules to get by. The only way to make an honest living is to be criminal. The drawback?
Guilt can be a bitch.

And a quick excerpt:

“We received some information last night-”
“About what?”
Phillips cocked his head to the side. “That someone was dealing drugs out of this house.”
The silence was thick. She could hear the grandfather clock tick, tick, tick.
“Oh,” Margo smiled and shrugged. “I’m just a librarian.”

Read the story now!

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My post is up today on the3six5!

I was asked to participate in the3six5.com, a blog-a-day, person-by-person account of the whole year. My post is up today! Mine’s on writing and observation – there’s a snippet below.

If you have the chance, please check out the whole post (link below), and comment/tweet/forward if you like it! (This project is getting a lot of mentions in the social media/creative realms… very exciting!)

With dialogue, the words are only as important as how they’re said. The best conversation I had was this morning, a goodbye to the boys as one took the other to daycare. “Zai jian,” I waved. “Bye chen,” my son answered – but it’s a start. Yes, that’s Mandarin Chinese, and yes, we’re that kind of parents.

My friend Simon’s latest design is NOW LIVE on Threadless.com!
Now that it’s approved, it needs your vote in the next week to become a sweet T-shirt!

Click below to get started.

The Room In The Elephant - Threadless T-shirts, Nude No More

If you like the design, please share it! You can post it to facebook, twitter, etc., straight from the threadless page.

This T-shirt design is accompanied by a story co-written by yours truly, along with Simon (proving that two opinionated redheads can work together)!
You can read it here:
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The Room in the Elephant

My friend Simon’s latest submission on Threadless is undergoing approval, and it features a story co-written by yours truly. The story and design are both called “The Room in the Elephant.”
The design isn’t up on threadless.com yet, but here’s the story:
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Once the design is approved, you can vote for it to become a shirt (I’ll keep you posted).