Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

MY KIDS MAKE FUN OF MY ACCENT ALL THE TIME. THIS GETS THEM TOLD THEY’RE ALLOWED TO MAKE FUN OF MY ACCENT IN ENGLISH WHEN THEY MUSTER A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO MORE THAN A PITIFUL “WHERE IS THE BATHROOM” LEVEL.  I’LL BE NICE AND NOT DEMAND THEY BE ABLE TO WRITE NOVELS IN IT, AS WELL: Not Racism.

(And Kim is right. If I’d stayed here after my exchange student year, I’d probably have lost my accent. Going back for those four years was the fatal misstep.)

THEY ARE FEEDING THE VIOLENCE WITH THEIR LIES:  The Jacob Blake narrative: on getting the story straight.

And considering who Jacob Blake is and what he actually was guilty of, are we to assume the left is now done with the #metoo movement? Or perhaps the stone cold racists never meant for it to apply to black women?

ON SALE FOR 99C AND YES, I HAVE A STORY IN THIS:  Parallel Worlds: The Heroes Within.

 

Heroes and villains are not always on the opposite ends of the spectrum of good and evil. Sometimes, all that separates them is a fine line. The stories within “Parallel Worlds” explore the lives of such heroes and what drives them — and what keeps them from crossing over to the other side.

This anthology features nineteen stories from bestselling, award-winning, and emerging authors, and includes brand new, never-before seen stories from Jim Butcher’s, “Dresden Files,” Robert Asprin’s “The Myth-Adventures” by Jody Lynn Nye, and Neo Edmund’s “Red Riding Alpha Huntress Chronicles.”

AS AN UNRECONSTRUCTED HEINLEINIAN, I KNOW THAT HUMANS WERE BORN TO STRIVE.  IT’S NOT CHILDREN WHO GET RUINED BY HAVING THEIR LIVES MADE TOO EASY:  That Universal Basic Income Nonsense.

FROM JEFF DUNTEMANN:  Dreamhealer.

By day, Larry Kettelkamp keeps ancient PDP-8 computers alive in a collapsing industrial bakery. By night he wages war on nightmares, and has been waging that war for thirty years. As a young man, Larry discovered that he could enter other peoples’ nightmares, end them, and then vaccinate the dreamers against that nightmare with an ancient symbol that alters the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain.
For nightmares are not random concoctions of our dreaming imaginations. Strange creatures called archons living in the subtle realms of the collective unconscious craft horrifying dreams to drop into sleeping minds, and then feast on the terror those dreams evoke. This scheme goes back 15,000 years, to the dawn of human history. It was created by a sort of super-archon who claims to be the Demiurge of ancient Persian myth.
Once Larry learns how to destroy archons instead of merely banishing them from dreams, this architect of all nightmares hunts Larry down and demands that Larry stop destroying the monster’s archon servants. Thus begins an escalating conflict that draws in a bored title-search agent, a witch and a lightworker, two teenage prodigies, a modern-day cult practicing ancient Persian death magick, dream mechas a quarter-mile high, and a very very large number of dogs.

SO NOW IF I OPT NOT TO MASK I HAVE “LOWER LEVELS OF EMPATHY” AND “HIGHER LEVELS OF CALLOUSNESS”?  BUT IF I WEAR A MASK WHILE LOOTING AND BURNING BUSINESSES I’M DISPLAYING A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE?  Antisocial traits linked to lower coronavirus safety adherence, researchers say.

Or maybe I understand the science enough to know masks are kabuki. And since I have asthma, it’s highly harmful (to me) kabuki.

But never mind that, the sociopaths in power will try to shame me into sheep-like obedience.