"An Aversion to Blood," short story excerpt
Tuesday 11/29/22 I wasn't someone who ever bled a lot. Over the course of my life, sightings of my blood were rare. I didn't have bloody...
Colin Fleming
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- Nov 29
- 6 min
Words are actions
Tuesday 11/29/22 Over the duration of my life to date, I've noticed that a certain kind of person is apt to say that actions speak louder...
- Nov 28
- 3 min
Little girl on a bike
Monday 11/28/22 There is a great deal to enter in this record. I want to be thorough. The four days of the holiday weekend were hard. All...
- Nov 25
- 4 min
Cricket on the dole
Wednesday 11/23/22 Heading out to run stairs and do push-ups. I worked this morning on the Children of the Stones essay and the short...
- Nov 23
- 4 min
More of the stuff
Wednesday 11/23/22 This will be in And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art. *** The plot of Children of the Stones is wild,...
- Nov 23
- 2 min
Mostly numbers and work
Wednesday 11/23/22 It's a little after four in the AM. Just wanted to record a few items. I could write in these pages constantly and...
- Nov 22
- 2 min
Excerpt from feature on The Sound of Jazz
Tuesday 11/22/22 The program is best remembered for the final musical pairing of Billie Holiday and Lester Young—as it should be. We’ve...
- Nov 22
- 5 min
"A BETTER MAN THAN YOU," short story excerpt
Tuesday 11/22/22 This is as good as it gets. *** He could throw the photos away. That wasn’t going to happen. And even if it did, he had...
- Nov 22
- 6 min
The woman at the cafe
Tuesday 11/22/22 A lot of my weekends are spent going from on cafe to another, doing work. I have nowhere else to go, save the places I...
- Nov 21
- 1 min
A letter from Fleming to some people
Monday 11/21/22 A friend asked me yesterday to send them There Is No Doubt: Story Girls, so they could print it out. I was almost certain...
- Nov 21
- 4 min
That's the stuff
Monday 11/21/22 To this excerpt, I will add before the fact: If the Beatles existed right now and were writers, and did the writing...
- Nov 19
- 4 min
What's your process?
Saturday 11/19/22 This morning I saw a graphic on Facebook in a baseball history group, for who has led the game in home runs in the...
- Nov 19
- 10 min
Writing book
Saturday 11/19/22 Thinking more about this. What's another book? Thirty books sitting here with me, forty books sitting here with me....
- Nov 18
- 2 min
Quick sports thoughts, observations, and statistics
Thursday 11/17/22 * Dante Scarneccchia is the best coach Bill Belichick has ever had on staff and should be in the Hall of Fame....
- Nov 17
- 3 min
What it is
Thursday 11/17/22 It's hard to always be doing everything at once. It's harder still to be doing everything at once when it feels like...
- Nov 17
- 7 min
Excerpt from piece on the Beatles' "Love Me Do"
Thursday 11/17/22 A Hard Day’s Night is a film in which the Beatles always seem to be on high alert to provide the next copious outlay of...
- Nov 15
- 3 min
Patience
Monday 11/14/22 Thought I was done on "BETTER MAN" and it would be a matter of just one last read-through, but I changed the ending and...
- Nov 14
- 7 min
"A BETTER MAN THAN YOU," short story excerpt
Monday 11/14/22 Marcus looked at the four photos again. He looked at the photos often. He’d been looking at them at every opportunity for...
- Nov 14
- 3 min
No one in particular
Sunday 11/13 into Monday 11/14/22 Just another slog of a weekend, trying to hang in. Went to the Brattle tonight to try and just take a...
- Nov 12
- 2 min
Gunsmoke thoughts
Saturday 11/12/22 Something remarkable about the Gunsmoke radio program (1952-61) is that the four main characters--Matt Dillon (William...
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