hat tip~ VinXperience

http://www.wired.com/…
By Lore Sjöberg

The internet has created enormous opportunities for aspiring writers. It’s easier than ever to get your words in front of readers, who can then provide you with feedback, offer advice and attempt to scam you out of thousands of dollars while treating your dreams and aspirations the same way armed rural teenagers treat speed limit signs.
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http://www.alternet.org/story/93519/
By Dagmar Herzog, Perseus Books
Posted on August 4, 2008, Printed on August 7, 2008

Editor’s note: From the book Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics by Dagmar Herzog. Excerpted by arrangement with Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2008

The Religious Right is a capacious tent in which many agendas and approaches have found a home. There are conservative evangelicals who promise worldly prosperity and success (if only you trust enough in God’s plans). There are others who gird themselves for Armageddon. There are the vehement defenders of “Merry Christmas” and school prayer and the enemies of evolution and intellectualism and “liberal elitism.” There are highly intellectual (and themselves elite) members of the Religious Right. There are those who see the culture clash with neofundamentalist Islam as the current big threat, and those who work to justify the ongoing war in Iraq as a properly Christian cause. There are those who raise money for and organize tourism in Israel in the expectation that at the End of Days a majority of Jews will convert to Christ. But right-wing evangelicalism achieved power in American politics primarily through its sex activism. And in fifteen years of steady effort, it managed to undo the most important achievements of the sexual revolution of the 1960s-1970s.
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by evilgrin on 02 Jan 2006, 20:20

Author: EVILGRIN

Title::STILL LIFE WITH TAYLOR::
Pairing:: Taylor Reese/ Christine Cameron (OFC)
Rating: nc–17, violence, language and sex
Fandom: KAG
Disclaimer:any characters from KAG, are, of course, not mine…everything else is out of my demented little noodle…the bar regulars are friends, who were mightily amused to, once again, end up in something I’ve written…
summary:a new bar, a new town, and an old feud, but the bartender’s nice
Archive: VX,FDB
Feedback:In this thread only please. No shreds; I write for fun only
notes:: as with everything else I end up writing, the other guys thoughts and conversations are always going to be in italics, to make it easier to keep it all straight…
Copyright ©2005-2006xxxevilgrinxxx
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by evilgrin on 08 Feb 2006, 16:55

Author: Evilgrin

Title: INTERVIEW WITH AN ASSASSIN

Rating: NC 17 sex/seduction, consensual, hetero, and F/F, violence

Fandom: Pitch Black / ::ODD COUPLE::

Pairing: Riddick/Ava Black(OFC) + Janette Harding(OFC)

Disclaimer: Riddick is a character from PB, and so belongs to someone else. Ava, well, she’s a whole other story. She’s mine. All mine. Janette is a plaything for this story, and is also mine. John Stark and Angela Furgale are based loosely on a highly romanticized version of the real life American spree killer/s Charles Starkweather and his lover Caril Ann Fugate. If you’ve ever seen the movies True Romance, Natural Born Killers, or the film Starkweather, then you know where this is going. I, of course, changed a considerable amount about the couple, but I would like to acknowledge where the characters come from. As they are based on a real set of circumstances, I would like to add further that this is not an attempt to glorify REAL murders, or lessen the horror of what those real families faced. I make no money from this story, and it’s written for my enjoyment.

Summary: a sequel to odd couple. Valentines Day special

Notes: Almost completely from the POV of Ava Black

More notes: a special thank you to njrd, who gave me an idea for a story about an interview

Archive: VX, FDB

Feedback: In this thread only please. No shreds; I write for fun only

Copyright © 2006 xxxevilgrinxxx
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by evilgrin on 13 Jan 2006, 19:58
::FIVE::

It’s unnerving when she looks at me like that. Like she’s looking right into my soul. Never been able to look away when she does it either. Not that I didn’t try, in the beginning. Never wanted her getting a real good look at me. Figured she might see something she didn’t like. Always waited to make a woman, or a man, for that matter, drop their eyes. She never does. Her hands on either side of my face, thumbs just at the edge of my eyebrows. A little pressure. Making me look at her.
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by evilgrin on 11 Jan 2006, 23:59
::FOUR::

Watching her is hell. Thinking about her is worse. I’ve been doing both for hours. I never was much for waiting, when I didn’t have to. I want this over. For a lot of reasons.
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by evilgrin on 11 Jan 2006, 01:12

::THREE::

I never realized just how much control Ava had over a man until now. Probably something all women do. But Ava does it very deliberately. Plays a role, the clothes she bought for this job just a costume, another mask. Takes her time getting to the table, talking to other customers first, walking by the target’s table a couple of times, knowing full well the effect she’s having.
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by evilgrin on 10 Jan 2006, 18:48
::TWO::

She’s right. If I had seen what she bought for this job, I never would have let her outside in it. Ava is MINE. Everything in me wants to take her six ways from sunday over this table right now, and never mind the applause. If it was only mercs we were hunting I’d say it was their lucky day, the job is the furthest thing from my mind.
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