This is the original version I submitted to the bulletin; the version that actually came out in print I posted on the Read or Die blog.  Clicky.
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Who’s Preying on Whom?: Two Experiences

 
 
By M. S. A. Sereno:
 
When I first read Mga Ibong Mandaragit I was fourteen, a high school senior with bad study habits and even […]

by Mia on 11:41 am, May 24, 2008 in writing (2) spoke

He has forgotten the convent walls, the iron gate and its thousand barbs, the doors whose hinges screamed as they opened and closed. But he remembers the garden; stepping into that confused mass of greenery hidden behind crumbling stone and rotting wood, his feet sinking into grass and makahiya, yet another child despoiling a secret […]

by Mia on 12:38 am, April 28, 2008 in writing none spoke

Kthxbai Fo Realz
Cat Rizal (teh littelz sexeh kitteh)
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Kthxbai cheezburger,
U srsly yummeh cheezburger,
Mai shiniez I gif u, tho it no can has teh cheez
N even if it had moar of teh cheez
I wud gif u all dat cheez.
OMG FAYT!
N teh kittehs also gif u der shiniez.
Whar kittehs? Dun carez:
Scratchy place, roll-around place,
Dey r all place for […]

by Mia on 11:26 pm, November 6, 2007 in writing (1) spoke

I’m happy to see — at least, judging from the responses to my post on the RoD weblog, Notes on science for writers (and readers) — that people are interested in learning more about writing science, or just science in general. It so happens that recently I’ve been stressed and have been immersing myself in […]

by Mia on 10:02 pm, October 8, 2007 in writing (12) spoke

My brain feels like a piece of paper left out on a rainy street and crushed to pulp by a thousand heavy wheels. So please forgive this resurrected post; it may be as ugly as your run-of-the-mill zombie but I need word therapy.
This was written two years ago. RO fanfic. I’m going to start writing […]

by Mia on 12:55 am, October 6, 2007 in writing none spoke

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by Mia on 12:27 am, September 28, 2007 in writing Enter your password to view comments

Let us put aside all questions of national and personal identity for a while and talk about food. Yesterday I was having lunch at a restaurant when the idea of literature as food came to me. It might have been the cheese or the wine, but for a while I sat dumbfounded by the simplicity […]

by Mia on 11:56 pm, September 24, 2007 in writing (1) spoke

The first night after the bees disappeared she walked outside, nightgowned and barefoot, and found herself among the abandoned hives. She stood motionless in the midst of branches and metal stems rendered alien by the moonlight, waiting for the first few stings. The air was cold and smelled of jasmine and honeysuckle.
The second night, she […]

by Mia on 2:16 pm, September 22, 2007 in writing none spoke