Famous

"Regular people thought you did it for the producers, the directors, the test screenings, the Q score, the paparazzi, the vanity. It wasn’t that at all. It was for the fans, not for their love of her but for their terrible intolerance of her getting older, for they could see no difference between themselves and her, and, for them, she had to be a god. It was the only way they could stand themselves; her immortality was their dream, the thing in which they believed." -- from "Famous Not Famous," a short story-in-progress

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V12. 483 hp. 7800 rpm. 190 mph. 1939. W154/39. Benz. pic.twitter.com/l7MdhJs5ZX

— Susannah Breslin (@susannahbreslin) June 14, 2014

Bloomsday

"The milkwhite dolphin tossed his mane and, rising in the golden poop the helmsman spread the bellying sail upon the wind and stood off forward with all sail set, the spinnaker to larboard. A many comely nymphs drew nigh to starboard and to larboard and, clinging to the sides of the noble bark, they linked their shining forms as doth the cunning wheelwright when he fashions about the heart of his wheel the equidistant rays whereof each one is sister to another and he binds them all with an outer ring and giveth speed to the feet of men whenas they ride to a hosting or contend for the smile of ladies fair. Even so did they come and set them, those willing nymphs, the undying sisters. And they laughed, sporting in a circle of their foam: and the bark clave the waves." -- Ulysses

Equals

Girls who like riding horses are the equivalent of guys who like driving fast cars.

— Susannah Breslin (@susannahbreslin) June 12, 2014

Words

"So I took Anse. And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terrible and that this was the answer to it. That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at." -- Addie Bundren

Everybody's Baby

Amazon

My awesome friend Lydia published a new e-novella, Everybody's Baby. It's about a couple who crowd source having a baby. Buy it now!

"Jenna and Billy are in love.  He's an app developer, a hyper-plugged-in citizen of the internet, with a big Scottish family and winning smile.  She is a yoga teacher, tuned in to the vibes of the spiritual universe, who was abandoned by her mother as an infant and orphaned by her father's recent death.  When they meet, it's electric, and it is no time before they are married and eager to start their own family.  But when they can't get pregnant, Billy devises a plan:  they would raise funds for their in vitro fertilization on Kickstarter, offering donor perks like cutting the cord, naming the baby, and catching the baby when it takes its first steps."

[Amazon]

Robot

Via This Isn't Happiness

Sharks

"You two would likely make a formidable if unsettling team, moving forward together like a pair of beautiful sharks." -- Prudie

Warning

"But trigger warnings have come in for criticism and mockery even on the left. Jarvie concludes her piece with this sensible observation: 'Bending the world to accommodate our personal frailties does not help us overcome them.' She reports that the feminist website Jezebel, 'which does not issue trigger warnings, raised hackles in August by using the term as a headline joke: "It's Time To Talk About Bug Infestations [TRIGGER WARNING]."' And Susannah Breslin provoked outrage in 2010 when she 'wrote in True/Slant that feminists were applying the term "like a Southern cook applies Pam cooking spray to an overused nonstick frying pan."'" -- WSJ