An attractive young woman suits up in a tight mini skirt and a skimpy peekaboo blouse, paints her face like Irma la Douce, dons a flashy diamond necklace, sticks a wad of 100-dollar bills into each of her exposed garters, puts on a pair of four-inch stilettos, gets plastered out of her mind, and proceeds to take a midnight stroll on the South Side of Chicago, all by herself. …
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Living with DDD
By Cyberquill • 02/12/2010 • 59 CommentsGID has been officially classified as a medical condition such that, in some cases, sex change operations may even be tax-deductible as medical rather than cosmetic procedures. Translation: you and I foot the bill. At least part of it. And that’s fine. Nothing wrong with helping the sick. My aim is not to dispute or even to debate the merits of such classification. I do, however, contend that if GID indeed amounts to a genuine medical condition, then my DDD is a genuine medical condition as well. …
On Writing Kingly, Snakes, and Wheels
By Cyberquill • 02/07/2010 • 18 CommentsIn his splendidly (oops…) entertaining and highly (ouch!) edifying writing primer “On Writing–A Memoir of the Craft,” horrormeister Stephen King counsels against the use of adverbs. …
