Merriam-Websters states that they have recently added 535 new words to their www.merriam-webster.com dictionary. That is a large list and proves the English language is alive and well. I enjoy etymology, and I find myself frequently looking at entries in the Urban Dictionary with amazement. I find it fascinating how new words are just popping out of…
by Emmanuel Paige (published in Macabre Cadaver magazine 2010) Would you like to donate your body to science? Not in the traditional fashion where cadavers are donated to universities to be dissected in anatomy classes by premed students, but in a more natural scientific program that involves forensic research and the study of human decomposition.…
by Emmanuel Paige (Published in Macabre Cadaver magazine 2008) The Stepp Cemetery, located in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest just north of Bloomington, and south of Martinsville, Indiana is home to a famous legend about the grave of a baby named Lester, and his protective mother’s ghost: the “Lady in Black.” She is rumored to wear…
Note: this was an assignment for Linguistics 350 and I thought I would post it as my pound of flesh for the day (warts and all). Here is the link to the Power Point presentation that accompanied this week’s work. 5-1 Discussion – Translating From One Audience to Another “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by…
“You don’t have to understand the internal-combustion engine to drive a car, and you don’t need to know the circumstances which surrounded the making of a story to get a bit of pleasure from it. Engines interest mechanics; the creation of stories interests academics, fans, and snoops (the first and the last are almost synonymous,…
“Maybe my poems aren’t that great, but I know some people who like them. Anyways, it’s the best I can do.” —Adam Sandler (“Longfellow Deeds”), Mr. Deeds I heard this quote and it struck me like a hard punch in the nose. It is from the movie Mr. Deeds and it rings with so much…
Wonderful news about this book as of late. I’ve decided to add more short stories to make this a good value to my readers, and it will now be a collection with twenty-eight stories of varying length (from flash to novella) and will be my third volume of twisted tales so far. I am excited…
This is the story of Martin Preston, the forgotten child-and his extended family, a ragtag bunch of reprobates including adopted children, foster children, and grandchildren who come and go through the doors of the house known as “The Funny Farm,” their lives forever affected-born in the small logging town of Fairview, located along Highway 101…
There are two primary methods to publish a book: self-publishing or traditional. Either avenue may potentially lead to a lucrative outcome, however, each has its own prerequisites and specific requirements to achieve success. With self-publishing, there are so many different options available to format, distribute, and sell a book that the sky is virtually the…
Self-publishing probably began with Johannes Gutenberg and his famous printing press way back in the 15th century, so it is nothing new. Following the invention of the printing press, but before the advent of personal computers and print on demand technology, many authors were successfully self-published: Marcel Proust, Laurence Sterne, Martin Luther, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Emily…