Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

OUR BRAIN ISN’T READY TO COPE WITH IT. NOT IN FOOD, NOT IN INFORMATION:  Glut.

THEY’RE GOING TO TRY TO PRETEND IT NEVER HAPPENED:  The Tar-Baby.

But the thing about the tar baby is that the more you fight, the more you stick.

Oh, and guys, Sargent Mom is an amazing writer of historical fiction. Here is a link to her latest, but really, any of her work is worth reading:  That Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War.

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There wasn’t much of an outlet for an ordinary American woman with ambitions in the 184os; marriage and family was as good as it got back then, for most women … But Minnie Vining wasn’t an ordinary woman. A spinster in her forties, of a respected old Boston family, possessing an independent income and an education worthy of any man among her peers. Minnie took up a noble cause – campaigning for the abolition of slavery. The matter of slavery roiled political and social life in the United States for more than thirty years, splitting apart families, friends, comrades … and eventually the nation. And when the war began in earnest, Minnie followed her heart and her calling … as a nurse, tending to sick and wounded soldiers … but at what personal cost?

 

 

 

NO IT’S NOT THE ONLY REASON, AND YET:  Don’t Make It Easy.

FROM MACKEY CHANDLER:  A Reluctant Sovereign.

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When North America attacked the space habitats beyond the Moon they had no plan B if they failed. The Earth Claims Commission was already suffering a credibility crisis and North America’s disastrous failure and defeat left them with no muscle. Far flung worlds and stations were abandoned with no banking, no supply, and no news. The explorers who were owed royalties were cut off too. Lee and her father Gordon weren’t about to sit still for that. If you can repossess a ground car, why not a planet? Lee had standing to be sovereign of Providence but wasn’t all that fond of planets. She didn’t want to be bogged down with the day to day drudgery of sovereignty like her friend Heather on the Moon. Was there any reason she couldn’t have her cake and eat it too? None that she could see.

THERE IS NO TRUTH THERE, AND ALL WHO SEEK IT ARE DOOMED TO BE LOST:  Gaza and the truth famine.