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THE SILVER RING Goes Live

May 1, 2009, 9:03 pm

First, I want to thank everyone again for submitting to the Hint Fiction Contest. There’s a lot of great entries and it’s going to take awhile to sort through all of them to find the best. Which means...

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Getting The Hint

May 4, 2009, 6:39 pm

Thanks to everyone who submitted to the “Get the Hint” blog-to-blog exercise. Not a huge turnout, but a turnout nonetheless. They were all great, but my pick is the one by Ben Brooks. So I guess the...

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Better Than Purell

May 8, 2009, 2:09 pm

My 14-word story “Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning to Work” is up now at Monkeybicycle. It’s one of five one-sentence stories posted this month. Enjoy, and have a great weekend.

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Hint Makes History

May 11, 2009, 11:28 am

Sometimes things just happen, you know? Not to be cliché, but had someone told me two months ago that Hint Fiction would be has big as it’s become, I would have told them they were crazy (keep in mind...

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Jack Kilborn And Blake Crouch Want To Murder You

May 12, 2009, 8:16 pm

Well, okay, they don’t want to murder you, but they definitely want to thrill the pants off you. As some of you may remember, author Joe Konrath made this little piece of cyberspace the very first stop...

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And They’re Off!

May 15, 2009, 7:11 pm

I’ve finally narrowed down the top 20 and forwarded them off to Stewart O’Nan. It’s in his hands now. It feels like the contest ended months ago when it’s really only been about two weeks. I apologize...

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Drum Roll, Please

May 18, 2009, 10:14 am

Before we begin, I again want to thank everyone who either entered the Hint Fiction Contest or mentioned it on their blogs/websites/Twitter/Facebook/etc. Each and every one of you helped propel this...

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The Men Without Faces …

May 20, 2009, 9:59 am

… came for his father just after dinnertime. That’s the first line of my story “Incomplete” which is featured today at Every Day Fiction. Go check it out. *** In other news, our hermit crab Sid passed...

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Buh-Bye, WordPress

May 24, 2009, 12:08 am

… at least in terms of hosting, that is. So I finally did it. I’m the proud owner of a spanking new domain name, which, as you can guess is as follows: www.robertswartwood.com Please update your...

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