My friend Tyler just told me at dinner about the plot of the movie Repo Men. He told me it's about people who're sent to repossess the artificial working organs of people who can't finish paying for them.In December I started working on "The Trouble With Actual Organs" - in which my main character's organs are backed up (in the computer data backup sense) by technological/artificial organs, which...

-- This is basically just my opinion, but I don't think I'm unreasonable. Just think about how you would feel if you read a story (or poem) in which the writer used a foreign language you don't understand for important words in sentences or for entire sentences altogether. It's pretty frustrating - and if you find it annoying, chances are, so does the general reader. I use Spanish as an example...

I've been a writer for a long while now, and I've been through the process of searching for a place to submit a piece two or three times in the past decade. It's a pain. It's complicated. And a lot of the time it's disheartening, not only because it's a pain in the ass, but also because there is always that chance of rejection. That's a subject for another journal, though. For now, I'm going to...