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...and away we go, because I am still stuck in the land of Charlie/Ben. All it took was somebody saying: "Hey, why don't you try something from Charlie's POV?" Oh no, I thought, I can't do THAT...

...yet hours later, I've essentially brainstormed my way through an entire outline for something which takes place before Think Like A Gun (so no overt slash, just cluelessness and yearning); it's gen, with a particularly weird side-order of het. OTOH, it sure will have a lot of Ben and Charlie being awesome and destructive together, so maybe that will just have to do.

Reading: Extremities by Kathe Koja, a short story collection of hers that I've wanted to pick up for some time now. The pieces are rather violently surreal--wonderful prose-poetry, with her usual mastery of weird shorthand and metaphor. I'm enjoying it, and hope that at least some of that influence may slop over onto "The Underneath", once I finally pull my head out of Charlie Prince's ass and get back to it.

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Reading: Extremities by Kathe Koja, a short story collection of hers that I've wanted to pick up for some time now.

I discovered her late in college, early in grad school. I love that book.

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It's always interesting to me, the difference between her novels and her short fiction. The glue she seems to use to bind things together/extend them is definitely plot...many of the selections in Extremities barely have a "plot" at all, per se. But they're never boring.