tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164625732024-03-07T20:08:33.923-06:00Anecdotal EvidenceAaron DaMommio: husband, father, writer, juggler, and expert washer of dishes. "DaMommio" rhymes with "the Romeo", as in "my parents told me they thought about naming me Romeo DaMommio, and I believed them, when I was ten."Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.comBlogger1164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-63538431930493137612021-02-08T08:08:00.004-06:002021-04-11T11:04:01.867-05:00"Vacation Gnomes" published in Metaphorosis Magazine<p> My fantasy short story "Vacation Gnomes" appeared in Metaphorosis Magazine on Friday, February 5, 2021. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2021/vacation-gnomes-aaron-damommio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vacation-gnomes-aaron-damommioe.metaphorosis.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/Metaphorosis_2021-02.jpg" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="200" src="https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/Metaphorosis_2021-02.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-9205266511229334872021-01-28T16:02:00.004-06:002021-01-28T16:02:52.998-06:00How to pronounce my name<p> The easiest way to remember how to pronounce "DaMommio" is that it rhymes with "the Romeo."</p>Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-43974776897242944422020-09-13T15:26:00.001-05:002020-09-13T15:26:19.194-05:00How lockdown bored am I ? How lockdown bored are YOU? <p> I just spent 15 minutes making these lovely paper airplanes in the shape of hands. So that I could throw hands with my daughter. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh21ddWI0NOKzqmzEin8ajoMcqJbuBQfHYpIiButBKpdggGy5sW5mg9v8Mpb6xIwtT0BwneR66UufzpyLTYnqam3HJYlYvdfEBHIOnL1O47rh_0PDG0vUZxO3CElsPJmyTQTxaFjg/s2048/IMG-0529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh21ddWI0NOKzqmzEin8ajoMcqJbuBQfHYpIiButBKpdggGy5sW5mg9v8Mpb6xIwtT0BwneR66UufzpyLTYnqam3HJYlYvdfEBHIOnL1O47rh_0PDG0vUZxO3CElsPJmyTQTxaFjg/s320/IMG-0529.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-52656012305547660542020-08-29T10:29:00.006-05:002020-08-29T10:29:54.732-05:00Armadillocon 42 is live now: 2020 convention is online and completely free<p> Check out <a href="http://armadillocon.org/d42/">http://armadillocon.org/d42/</a> to register for the con and join. Browser-based videoconferencing software is being used, so it's easy to get involved. </p>Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-81931240021350899272020-04-15T09:03:00.003-05:002020-04-15T09:03:50.083-05:00"The Great Pause" ... a reminder to keep in mind the differences in our lives we see from the Corona pandemicKaren Watkins sent me this link and I thought this article was incredible food for thought. <a href="https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0">https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0</a>Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-85203418997889785492018-08-24T18:22:00.002-05:002018-08-24T18:22:18.604-05:00Goodreads page for meNow I have a <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17749279.Aaron_DaMommio">Goodreads page</a> listing things found there that I have stories featured in.Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-42367135985785527802018-07-15T10:39:00.001-05:002018-07-15T10:39:08.210-05:00Reprint of "Daughter of Mettle"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">A reprint of "Daughter of Mettle" appeared in the July 2018 issue of </span><a href="http://books2read.com/u/bOAXqE" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;">Bards and Sages Quarterly</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">.</span>Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-16329144128555935922018-04-13T18:21:00.002-05:002018-04-13T18:21:52.875-05:00"Things I Realized on Finding an Alien in the Passenger Seat of My Car" appears in Flash Fiction OnlineMy short story <a href="http://flashfictiononline.com/main/article/things-i-realized-on-finding-an-alien-in-the-passenger-seat-of-my-car/">Things I Realized on Finding an Alien in the Passenger Seat of My Car</a> has been published in the April 2018 issue of Flash Fiction Online. I've been waiting for this for about six months. This is my second sale at a professional rate, and my first SFWA-qualifying sale.<br />
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I've been having a great time with this one. It's pretty great to have a story in an online magazine where you can share it with everyone and they don't have the barrier of having to locate and purchase a copy before they can read it. Tons of people at my office have told me they read and enjoyed it, and then they cite details proving they really did read it.Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-71983805694135445592018-03-06T20:59:00.002-06:002018-03-18T09:40:26.359-05:00Some reviews of my story "Daughter of Mettle"I did some vanity googling and found these brief mentions of the story. The story itself (which came out way back in 2013) can be read at <a href="http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/superhero/aaron-damommio/daughter-of-mettle">http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/superhero/aaron-damommio/daughter-of-mettle</a><br />
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It's rewarding to find people posting about it. In several cases below, you'll want to search for the word 'mettle' as the story gets only a paragraph in an article.<br />
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<li><a href="https://scwade.wordpress.com/page/3/">https://scwade.wordpress.com/page/3/</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.diabolicalplots.com/daily-science-fiction-april-2013-review/">http://www.diabolicalplots.com/daily-science-fiction-april-2013-review/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.songsoferetz.com/2013/04/review-of-daughter-of-mettle-by-aaron.html">http://www.songsoferetz.com/2013/04/review-of-daughter-of-mettle-by-aaron.html</a></li>
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Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-13277142793457759862018-03-03T09:15:00.001-06:002018-03-03T09:19:02.511-06:00My story "Road Trip" to appear in anthology<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">My story "Road Trip" will appear in the </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fell-Beasts-Fair-Noblebright-Anthology-ebook/dp/B07B2LYZKY/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">Fell Beasts and Fair anthology</a><span style="font-size: small;"> from Spring Song Press. The anthology collects stories about magical creatures. This'll be my longest published piece so far, at about 3500 words, and my first one to feature a werewolf, and a sandwich. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">It's available for preorder now, shipping March 20, 2018. The link above takes you the Amazon page; it's available as a Kindle ebook and a paperback, though the paperback may trail the ebook in availability. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As a result, I now have an <a href="http://amazon.com/author/aarondamommio">Amazon author page</a>, and you can search Amazon for 'damommio' and find the book, which somehow thrills me a lot.</span></div>
Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-42375479996157018812016-09-12T14:45:00.000-05:002016-09-12T14:45:26.120-05:00Generating menu ideas with a simple Excel spreadsheetI have often found it difficult to plan menus for our house. So I thought I'd try randomly generating menus, and I'm excited about the results. We've been using this system for about 3 weeks, and here's what I've learned:<br />
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<li>The most important thing here was to make a list of entrees that we actually cook at our house. That alone is a great resource for planning new menus.</li>
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<li>"Aaron likes lists, and solving a problem with a new list makes him happy" isn't really anything new. But this is the first time I've tried to make a relatively comprehensive list of meals.</li>
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<li>We're trying to plan our weeks more tightly. It's ok if we change the plan mid-week. But I'm finding it more useful than ever to have a plan for the whole week.</li>
<li>This is of some use in avoiding letting food we buy go bad before we cook it, but only if I stay on top of that issue.</li>
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I'm only talking about dinners here. I tried to find the lowest-tech way I could do this fast, and also something that would keep whatever data I generated in a common format. So, here's what I did:<br />
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<li>Made a list of meal options in one column of an Excel spreadsheet</li>
<li>Inserted random numbers in the next column, using "=RAND()" in each cell.</li>
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That's it. I made it slightly fancier by writing a macro to do the sort and tying that to a key combo, but really I didn't do that until I had it for a while. </div>
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Each week I sort the list and then take the top 10 or so options and pick the actual ones I feel like making, freely throwing out stuff we ate recently or that sounds too involved for this week. </div>
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At first I thought I would be generating a list of 5 or 10 items,but sorting the WHOLE list and then just taking the top few items works fine. If I hate most of the top choices, I can just go deeper in the list.</div>
Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-21285462724420965572016-08-17T11:57:00.001-05:002016-08-17T11:57:14.738-05:00Could you use JavaScript to make links that both rickroll and provide the original link as well? I was thinking that it ought to be possible to use JavaScript to create a link that takes you to a rickroll youtube page, but also provides the original desired link in some fashion. That is, you get rickrolled, but then the actual link you thought you were clicking on is available to you.<br />
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But, I'm not quite sure how to approach that, and I don't find anything like that in a Google search, so I'm putting it out there lazyweb style to see if anyone else knows how to do this.<br />
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<br />Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-3319692302670471842015-10-27T08:12:00.000-05:002015-10-27T10:15:51.933-05:00My story "The Van Helsing Women's Shelter" now published on Stupefying Stories SHOWCASEI'm very pleased to announce that a short story of mine, "The Van Helsing Women's Shelter," is now available on the <a href="http://stupefyingstoriesshowcase.com/?p=654">Stupefying Stories SHOWCASE</a> website, just in time for Halloween. In a world where vampires are real, you could hope we might create a few institutions to deal with the problem.<br />
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This story was something of a response to one called "<a href="http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/Monsters/sean-vivier/bitten-womens-shelter">Bitten Women's Shelter</a>" in Daily Science Fiction...a story whose premise I loved but whose take on the situation bugged me. So thanks to author Sean Vivier for blazing that trail.<br />
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You can find my <a href="http://aarondamommio.blogspot.com/p/published-work.html">complete list of publications here</a>.<br />
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<br />Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-58109099228845249962015-07-12T08:41:00.001-05:002015-07-12T08:41:16.584-05:00Colorado having great success with long-term birth control methods to reduce teen pregnancies...but funding is apparently drying up.<br />
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/science/colorados-push-against-teenage-pregnancies-is-a-startling-success.html?_r=0Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-17984715092461214082015-06-25T09:37:00.001-05:002015-06-25T09:37:44.952-05:00Why people choose violenceI thought this article on Aeon was striking for its evidence-based approach to trying to answer the question of why people commit violent acts.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/people-do-violence-because-their-moral-codes-demand-it/</span><br />
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Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-35594675794644015022015-05-27T13:23:00.003-05:002015-05-27T13:23:48.409-05:00Beating a chess master with a queen sacrifice<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow, long time no post. Here's a f<span style="color: #222222;">un piece about how having good chess AIs available to all can change the way people train for chess. In it, the author describes how he prepared for a queen sacrifice gambit and then executed it against a much more highly rated player.</span></span><br />
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Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-61053946018485720702014-11-26T12:01:00.000-06:002014-11-26T12:01:29.392-06:00A storehouse of pencil and paper gamesHere's a nicely organized collection of games that one can play with only pencil and paper. Really handy to learn a couple of these for entertaining kids on the fly.<br />
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http://www.papg.com/<br />
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I also found this interesting tic-tac-toe variation, ultimate tic-tac-toe:<br />
http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2013/06/16/ultimate-tic-tac-toe/<br />
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...which has a smaller board inside each square of a larger one. The kicker is, you must make your move on the small board corresponding to your opponents last move.Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-119938911809756822014-11-24T08:05:00.000-06:002014-11-24T08:05:00.539-06:00"A Kiss with Teeth" by Max Gladstone, short story about a vampire fatherI only read this for the first time yesterday and I kinda think it's going on my all-time favorites list.<br />
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<a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/10/a-kiss-with-teeth-max-gladstone" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" target="_blank">http://www.tor.com/stories/<wbr></wbr>2014/10/a-kiss-with-teeth-max-<wbr></wbr>gladstone</a><br />
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It's perhaps the most mature vampire story I've ever seen. But I'm sure I'm biased by the fatherhood aspect. I'm starting to realize that short stories are more situational, seasons-of-life dependent. <br />
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So maybe the stories that really grab me now say as much about me or my current situation as anything else. However, that doesn't mean they aren't great. It means that a well-done story that his the right notes for me has more impact.<br />
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I think this story hits some deep universals. But maybe if you've never been a parent, those won't hit as hard. Feel free to give your own opinion in the comments.Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-57733474063266860472014-11-19T15:46:00.002-06:002014-11-19T15:46:18.865-06:00Tacoma art museum shows Western depictions of Native Americans and allows them to comment on themReally interesting approach:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Tacoma Art Museum has just opened an entirely new wing devoted to a single collection of Western American art [depicting Native Americans and created by Europeans and Euro-Americans]. Because the work presented is culturally problematic, the museum has taken the unusual step of commissioning a handful of Native American people to write labels responding to the art. What results in the galleries can be frustrating, but it also breaks open the complexity of what's really going on both in the art and in the institution of the museum in 2014.</span></blockquote>
<a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/11/18/how-tacoma-art-museum-criticizes-a-collection-without-angering-the-donors" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333339691162px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17.3333320617676px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">How Tacoma Art Museum Criticizes a Collection Without Angering the Donors</span></a>Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-14911025420169904772014-11-17T08:22:00.002-06:002014-11-17T08:22:52.373-06:00Best way to help the poor? Give them money, directly, in small amountsExperiments show they do not waste it and make better decisions than aid agencies; the result is improved lives and people off the public dole, with vastly less administrative costs.<div>
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Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-66373101081064987002014-11-05T15:47:00.003-06:002014-11-05T15:47:40.811-06:00Grief and old computing platforms, or why Paul Ford is a genius<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">This article on medium.com by Paul Ford </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">mixes the grief of losing a friend with nostalgia for old computing platforms. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The way Ford weaves everything together is, to me, the mark of why he's a fantastic writer. I've been reading his stuff for years and years. I can't even express the feelings his writing evokes.</span><br />
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Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-33509865205744970932014-11-02T07:29:00.002-06:002014-11-02T07:29:44.779-06:00"Black Box" by Jennifer Egan, short story on the New Yorker web siteI went to read this because I recognized Jennifer Egan's name. The associations in my head for her name were 'award-winning, literary, sci fi'. The story is interesting but I don't feel that I fully understand it.<br />
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/black-box-2#<br />
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When I checked my journal database I found that I'd read her book _The Keep_ in 2011 and been impressed. Similar to this story, though, I was more impressed while reading it than at the end, where there were some things that seemed unfinished.Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-9411662961266088562014-10-31T10:34:00.001-05:002014-10-31T10:34:45.908-05:00Halloween 2014: My Owlman CostumeThis is me as the Owlman of Morrison's Earth 2 comic.<br />
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Still, I was really happy with the stylized-feather-cape thing. Side note: I've definitely proven that such a cape would be completely impractical for any kind of acrobatics. </div>
Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-88503254574358517562014-10-21T07:22:00.001-05:002014-10-21T07:22:17.426-05:00New story "Expecting to Fly" on the Scary Go Round / Bad Machinery web site<br />
The author of the venerable Scary Go Round webcomic and the more recent Bad Machinery is taking a break from Bad Machinery to do a new story. He does this now and then, and I've really enjoyed the results.<br />
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Here's the start of the new story: http://scarygoround.com/?date=20140831<br />
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Allen has developed his fictional town of Tackleford, UK into a host of characters, and this story is a jump backwards in time to see Shelley Winters as a child.<br />
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I've grown the whimsy of Allen's art, the snarky comments of his characters, and the way lots always seems to happen between installments, so that in most strips you spend some time figuring out what happened since last time.<br />
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Anyhow, I highly recommend it. http://scarygoround.com has become a daily stop for me.<br />
<br />Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16462573.post-59237106024423408252014-09-27T09:02:00.001-05:002014-09-27T09:02:15.574-05:00Everybody Eats Everybody on Sunday's Planet, by Jeff SwycafferI was remembering this story, which I'd enjoyed in <i>Dragon </i>Magazine years ago, so I did a search, and the whole issue is archived as a PDF here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.annarchive.com/files/Drmg069.pdf">http://www.annarchive.com/files/Drmg069.pdf</a><br />
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The story involves an ousted dictator who flees assassination to land his damaged starship on an apparently deserted planet, where his attempts to repeat his dominion are met with an unusual rebuff.<br />
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Also, aliens try to eat him. Repeatedly. Enjoy!Aaron DaMommiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16065877179875338395noreply@blogger.com0