Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Which comes first, the duck or the chicken? As Shakespeare might have written, had he been so privileged as to live now “there are stranger things in the poultry yard, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your Women’s Studies programs.”

INCONCEIVABLE!  ISN’T GENDER JUST A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT? In Men, Depression is Different.  It’s almost like people who think it is just a construct ignore what doesn’t fit their delusion.

WHEN DID ‘INTERNET’ BECOME A RIGHT FOR THOSE WHO DON’T EVEN ATTEMPT TO PAY FOR IT: The shuttering of those internet kiosks is another tale of two cities.  Sometimes I think I woke up in another reality.  So people who pay for what they want/need are privileged are they?  I’d think it’s those receiving the handouts who have all the privilege.  I must be old-fashioned.

YOU KNOW, I WAS TAUGHT THE STORY OF PORTUGAL’S ICONIC POET WHO SAVED HIS MANUSCRIPT FROM SHIPWRECK WHILE HIS SLAVE DIED: It took me a while to realize there was something wrong with this.  Novelist runs into burning home to rescue his laptop.  Also, this is why you always email copies to friends, carry copies in your thumbdrive in your purse, etc.

FROM MARINA FONTAINE, A DRAGON AWARD FINALIST NOVEL: Chasing Freedom.

OF COURSE THERE WILL: Until we do something about it.  By which I don’t mean kabuki security theater.  ‘There will be more’: Chilling 911 call after the Chelsea explosion.  How many dumpsters do you think there are in NYC? Chicago?LA?  Are they going to put a security detail on every one of those?  Well, that would solve the employment problem.

INTO WHAT? A TESSERACT? WE SHOULD WRITE A STORY ABOUT IT: We could call it “And They Built a Cowardly Culture. Will Terror Reshape the Race?

OF COURSE: Noel Field, Communist Quaker. And I do have an explanation: those who never suffered need think the world should be “perfect” and communism sounds more “perfect” in theory.  Of course all they know is theory.