tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59301951359217327612009-04-10T17:29:47.568-04:00What it becameLaura Mottahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15982560813609451152noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930195135921732761.post-48390882925478662432009-04-10T17:26:00.001-04:002009-04-10T17:29:47.586-04:00

There is a man standing in my bedroom. I will recall the silhouette of him, black against the yellow light in the hallway, until the day I die, the outline of his hat, which gives away his identity in seconds, but still not fast enough to quell my terrible, screaming fear. He is not a burglar or a crazed drunk or a rapist, which are my first three thoughts as I tumble out out of bed, hair askew,

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The first piece of anything I ever published on the internet was a 40,000-word piece of fanfiction in the spring of 1998. (Prepare to be horrified. It’s still here.) Since then, I have posted enough blog posts, essays, short stories, poems-in-disguise, and status updates to fill six novels, and have written bibles of poorly-compliant, mostly-obsolete code.Among the more recent wreckage, you’ll

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That I've been obsessed with at one point or other in my life. No particular order. There are probably spelling mistakes.1. Dear Prudence - The Beatles2. Wolfman Jack - Todd Rundgren3. Get Up and Go - Hanson4. Superstition - Stevie Wonder5. Fly - The Dixie Chicks6. April Fools - Rufus Wainwright7. Kate - Ben Folds Five8. Shadowboxer - Fiona Apple9. Joining a Fan Club - Jellyfish10. Ballad of a

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Need some Laura facetime? If you're in New York, come see me this week at the Inner Monologues reading series. I'll be reading about... um... evangelism. The details:Inner MonologuesBar on A170 Avenue A (at 11th St.) [ Map]7:30 pm, no cover, no minimumTheme: Mixed Blissings

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Just wanted to test this with an image. So I did.

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I am still sorting out how this will work, but in general it works like this:Le Blog Laura is updated with a piece about Corsica. Stay tuned, as always, for more writing.

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Hello.My name is Laura and I'm the proprietress of this web site. I've been the proprietress of this web site for like a decade, which you'd think would mean I'd know how to use it and build things on it. But I kinda don't. I'm in the process of fixing it right now, which is why it looks like this. You know what's funny about that statement? Six years ago, I put up a splash graphic and a list of

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