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Oxtentatiously Oxpicious

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Gong Xi Fa Cai! 新年快乐 Xīn Nián Kuài Lè! Chúc mừng năm mới! Gung Hei Faat Choy!
And of course, the good ol’ “Happy Chi­nese New Year!”
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Now I would nor­mally end this post with these greet­ings, but it felt right for once to begin where we should begin. To greet every­one with Have your­self a jolly good year

Celebration!

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“How very queer,” said Mrs. Duck to Mr. Bunny. “I thought Snow White was a myth. A Fairy Tale. Some­thing old drakes would tell the young duck­lings. Who­ever heard of a princess spend­ing her buoy­ant and bosomy hours with seven swarthy, sweaty dwarves in a cave dark and dank? Unthink­able. Scan­dalous.”
“Well,” replied Mr. Bunny,

The Lady from Shanghai

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“There’s only one sun,” he says.
She nods her head, not catch­ing his mean­ing nor car­ing much either. It is enough that she is kind and patient. These sorts give up after a while and move on, fur­ther down the bar where it may be eas­ier to land a catch, and sure enough, they often do. You

Little Red

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“Lit­tle Red, Lit­tle Red, open the door and let me come in.”
Who does he think I am, a silly piglet wait­ing for the slaugh­ter? Nay, I would not be that fool­hardy. I know what men are like. Ani­mals. Sweet words drip like honey from stolen combs; there’ll be a price to pay later all right. Thieves

Howl

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Dance with us.
That’s what the witches say, that’s how they sing and reel their boys and their princes in. They like them young, juicy bones and a decent chew of rump, as sure as brooms are made for fly­ing. This all sounds a lit­tle ridicu­lous, no? — but it’s All Hallow’s Eve, and one may tol­er­ate

This Used to be Happiness

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I have to find you.
The morn­ing has turned cold on us. Dark clouds, a shade of sor­row splashed across the heav­ens. Grey is a feel­ing, no? It will rain soon enough. Just enough time to drive out and buy break­fast. The warm slabs of chee cheong fun and a big bowl of tau foo far, slathered

Dark City 2: Interview with Xeus

Finally, after months of wait­ing… the book is out! I recently inter­viewed the mas­ter­mind behind it all — Xeus. And yes, as a sur­prise to read­ers who thought I only did the cover, I did the inside illus­tra­tions too!

KENNY: What was your orig­i­nal inspi­ra­tion for Dark City?
XEUS: Actu­ally, I was inter­view­ing 4 women authors