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notes from the peanut gallery notes from the peanut gallery my life as a husband father writer and businessman sunday december 19 2010 ghosts of wan chai one of my stories ghosts of wan chai is in the december issue of our own voice it was first published in connecting flights an antho edited by ruey de vera labels speculative fiction posted by dean at 9 54 pm 525 comments thursday december 16 2010 seeing at year s end whoa i haven t been around here for some time and now the obligatory preamble before i ramble on there was a time when i could barely restrain myself from blogging but as time went on the need for self confessionals and such was gored to death by facebook s status messages and even to a smaller degree for me twitter without being fully aware of it i was borged into micro blogging if i did any true writing like that at all and the timesink that is facebook with pet society and farmville ate into a lot of my writing time not for fiction i still managed to write a number of published stories this year but for blogging i managed to wean myself almost completely off ps but fv is another matter perhaps it s my secret need for godhood or maybe i really want to be a farmer but in a world where blueberries take only 4 hours to grow but while i have curtailed my blogging i have continued thinking my thought life is sectioned off into anxieties business health family writing hopes business health family writing worldbuilding writing games and so on i think about people i ve met films i ve seen books and comics i ve read games i ve played stuff i ve done or not done it s nothing special no extraordinary process here people do it all the time i know but in these times of quiet contemplation when the weight of promises made exerts a deleterious gravity when the scale of a human life can be rendered into telling details when memory is both dubious and of sudden importance i find myself asking questions i consider regret i examine my faith and i am slowly coming to grips with what is truly important to me when i hit 40 i ll be 42 this coming january 42 the answer to life the universe and everything according to mr adams my body began to give in to time everything winds down and the illusion of youth cannot be maintained with my visit to the various doctors and the realization that if i do not change my lifestyle i can drop dead things came into perspective before you get the idea that this is a teary eyed ode to lost youth and opportunities get a hold of yourself what this is is me saying that what matters to me is simply living spending days with my wife and daughters and watching the little ones grow up spending time with friends just talking the night away sharing speculative worlds writing stories that i d want to read reading books that make me think watching films that move me or provoke me appreciating the humble egg my anti climatic epiphany is that life in all its real smallness and imagined bigness is worth living and i have chosen to experience everything in 3d full color billion dots per inch glory it doesn t make me a better person no not really but the perspective the zoom ins and zooms outs have dramatic effects it s the same world and i ve been in it before but this time this time i choose to see posted by dean at 7 08 pm 104 comments monday july 12 2010 call for submissions philippine speculative fiction 6 editors nikki alfar and kate aton osias invite you to submit short fiction for consideration for philippine speculative fiction volume 6 philippine speculative fiction is a yearly anthology series which collects a wide range of stories that define explore and sometimes blur the boundaries of science fiction fantasy horror and all things in between the anthology has been shortlisted for the manila critics circle national book award and multiple stories from each volume have been cited in roundups of the year s best speculative fiction across the globe first time authors are more than welcome to submit good stories trump literary credentials any time submissions must be 1 speculative fiction i e they must contain strong elements or sensibilities of science fiction fantasy horror magic realism alternate history folklore superheroes and or related nonrealist genres and subgenres 2 written in english 3 authored by filipinos or those of philippine ancestry submissions are preferred to be 1 original and unpublished 2 no shorter than 1 000 words and no longer than 7 500 3 written for an adult audience in all cases these preferences can be easily overturned by exceptionally well written pieces in the case of previously published work if accepted the author will be expected to secure permission to reprint if necessary from the original publishing entity and to provide relevant publication information submission details 1 no multiple or simultaneous submissions i e submit only one story and do not submit that story to any other market until you have received a letter of regret from us 2 all submissions should be in rich text format saved under the file extension rtf and emailed to kate osias gmail com with the subject line psf6 submission 3 the deadline for submissions is midnight manila time november 15 2010 letters of acceptance or regret will be sent out no later than one month after the deadline editors notes 1 please don t forget to indicate your real name in the submission email if you want to write under a pseudonym that s fine but this can be discussed upon story acceptance initially we just need to know who we re talking to 2 if you d like to write a cover letter with your brief bio and publishing history if applicable do feel free to introduce yourself but not your story please if it needs to be explained it s probably not ready to be published 3 we advise authors to avoid fancy formatting this will just be a waste of your time and ours since we will eventually standardize fonts and everything else to fit our established house style compensation will be php500 for selected stories in previous years we ve provided contributor copies of the book as well as small royalty shares but we are strongly leaning toward shifting philippine speculative fiction to digital format so we re shifting to outright financial payment as well please help spread the word we d really appreciate it if you d publish this invitation on your blog e group etc thanks nikki alfar kate aton osias co editors dean alfar publisher labels philippine speculative fiction 6 posted by dean at 1 43 pm 27 comments sunday july 11 2010 litcritters readings for july 17 hey litcritters our next sessions is on july 17 2010 at 2pm over at the coffee bean tea leaf robinsons galleria the stories we ll discuss are the following take note that the navigation for the macdonald story is a little tricky the queen of spades by alexander pushkin http home freeuk net russica2 books pushk spads spads html the light princess by george macdonald http www pagebypagebooks com george_macdonald the_light_princess 1_what_no_children_p1 html lamb to the slaughter by roald dahl http www classicshorts com stories lamb html see you there labels litcritters posted by dean at 8 53 pm 10 comments thursday june 17 2010 return of the litcrittters litcritters after a long hiatus we are back read the stories below and meet up with us on saturday june 26 2pm at the coffee bean tea leaf robinsons galleria here are the stories we ll discuss just follow the links hooves and the hovel of abdel jameela by saladin ahmed http fantasybookcritic blogspot com 2009 09 special online story from clockwork html spar by kij johnson http clarkesworldmagazine com johnson_10_09 swan by ellis o neal http www fantasy magazine com 2007 11 story swan by eilis oneal st see you soon posted by dean at 12 00 pm 13 comments wednesday april 14 2010 book launch philippine speculative fiction 5 philippine speculative fiction has become one of the country s most consistent and highly anticipated yearly anthology series showcasing the continuing development of the exciting field of speculative fiction writing this fifth volume edited by nikki alfar and vincent michael simbulan collects a broad spectrum of short stories that define explore and sometimes blur the boundaries of science fiction fantasy horror and all things in between featuring the work of both literary luminaries and very new voices from across the archipelago and the globe psf 5 contains stories by angelo r sarge lacuesta dean francis alfar rica bolipata santos paolo gabriel v chikiamco timothy james dimacali joseph f nacino charles tan dominique gerald cimafranca isabel yap christine v lao raymond g falgui mia tijam joseph anthony montecillo ejay domingo apol lejano massebieau veronica montes alexander osias fidelis angela c tan andrew drilon gabriela lee aileen familara marla cabanban eliza victoria kate aton osias kenneth yu join us at the book launch on april 24 2010 at 3pm u view theater fully booked bonifacio high street posted by dean at 1 26 pm 25 comments thursday march 25 2010 health schmealth sadly i can t go health schmealth anymore as i grow older parts of me are just getting tired this year my litany of woes continued to grow and so i finally finally decided to do something about the things i could do something about bridgework for my teeth yes i honestly prefer to chew instead of gumming my food to death despite my fear of the dentist i take on the multiple injections both long and short with a certain degree of quivering resignation and help for my eyes for around 25 years i have been relying on my right eye for almost all of my sight as my poor near sighted astigmatic left eye can barely see jack shit a decade or so ago i had a brief dalliance with glasses smashed lost sat upon bent and contact lenses or more properly contact lens since i wore only one which did not work out swallowed it a long and somewhat amusing story but with the onset of age and the incipient threat of farsightedness for my working eye a visit to the optha was in the cards when lenses were tested for my left eye and when we achieved one that permitted me to see i was beside myself with joy and a little vertigo which was not because of sublime emotion but due to the fact that my brain was merging my suddenly sighted lazy eye with my right workhorse i walked around with the tester looking like a poor imagining of a steampunk commoner but i was really happy i prepared myself for the cost of my new progressive lenses and frame and was a little shocked when it wasn t that astronomical compared to my bridgework which all my descendants will need to work to pay for long after i quit this mortal coil unlike our parents bifocals the progressive lenses integrate near middle and far distance corrections in one miraculous curve it will require practice to shift my eyes around but that s fine my diet do not blame the lovely liempo and smoking gasp can it be should be next but the willingness is not there yet i think i can work out the diet thing but smoking is what a quality of life issue hahaha overwrought overextended teenage rebellion a writer s crutch intellectually i know it s horrible for me but part of me says too bad then even as my cells perhaps inevitably form into the letter c we ll see or is it will c posted by dean at 8 33 am 14 comments fully booked awards 1st a kind of flotsam christelle rhodamae mariano 2nd filipina the super maid irene carolina sarmiento 3rd tie cherry clubbing kenneth yu 3rd tie remembrance me video from tania posted by dean at 8 28 am 27 comments about me name dean location manila philippines fictionist playwright husband father and businessman view my complete profile links google news edit me edit me previous posts ghosts of wan chai seeing at year s end call for submissions philippine speculative ficti litcritters readings for july 17 return of the litcrittters book launch philippine speculative fiction 5 health schmealth fully booked awards the abyss that is 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