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  • THROWBACK THURSDAY: Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for Writing a Short Story

    Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on February 17, 2011. My long-time friend (for almost 40 years now) Mitchell Stocks forwarded this list: “Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for Writing Short Stories.” I had never seen the list before. Since I know that Read more

  • BOOK REVIEW: “The Best Western Stories of Lewis B. Patten”

    The Best Western Stories of Lewis B. Patten is a collection of Patten’s short stories edited by Bill Prozini and Martin Greenberg. It is part of a set of “Best Western Stories” they did in the 1980s. I have also owned and read their The Best Western Stories of Frank Bonham. I know they did at Read more