KL Forslund
Axis of Diversity
One of the most impactful things Gene Roddenberry did for society was putting Nichelle Nichols on the bridge of the Enterprise. Countless...
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KL Forslund
Feb 20, 20219 min read
Frigid In Texas
Others had it worse, but the Freeze of 2021 wasn’t fun for us, either. I feel like it’s a touchy subject because I got lucky and I had...
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KL Forslund
Feb 7, 20213 min read
The State of Black Science Fiction
We honor the dead on Memorial Day, but they’re here to remind us every day. We forgive on Forgiveness Day, but we should be doing that...
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KL Forslund
Jan 31, 20216 min read
Twitter for Newbs
The question of how to use Twitter as an author came up a few times this week, and I’ve got some answers. Here’s everything I’ve...
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KL Forslund
Dec 21, 20206 min read
Dino-Pirates Christmas Special
The Part Where Sulking Happens Captain Raptor glared at the mirror, his baleful eye unblinking in the dim light of his cabin. His head...
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KL Forslund
Nov 26, 20206 min read
What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor
Never split up the party, unless everybody wants to see different things at the Ren Fair. Like last year, the wizards gathered at my...
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KL Forslund
Oct 31, 202029 min read
Murder Most Fowl
Warning: Swearing, Violence, Fan-fiction The clues that Moreau Cay was a murder island were there from the day I woke up inside the...
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KL Forslund
Sep 20, 20205 min read
Cross Animals
Seeing K.K Slider play all morning in the rain, I tried to put a cup of hot cocoa down for him. Tom Nook’s voice blared over the PA,...
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KL Forslund
Sep 7, 20203 min read
Done But Not Done
Last night, I wrote the ending to the novel I started writing back in 2018. A little over two years pecking at the project. Technically,...
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KL Forslund
Aug 1, 20203 min read
NI:22 Everthing's Not Back to Normal
#42 walked along the beach. It had been a long day, but the ninjas were home and repairs were being made to the villages of Ninja Island....
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KL Forslund
Jul 17, 20201 min read
Social Bubbling
It’s time to put a bubble in your ear. Everybody misses their friends. Seeing all of them would increase the risk of infection for...
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KL Forslund
Jul 6, 20202 min read
Crossing Animals With Dr. Moreau
I have found a new way to procrastinate. The wife got Animal Crossing a few weeks back. She let me try it last Monday. So far Moreau Cay...
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KL Forslund
Jun 23, 20207 min read
NI21: Band-aids Can't Fix This
Rhoda awakened early. She wasn’t sleeping well in the short time she’d been aboard Tyrant’s Revenge. Nobody trusted anybody on this...
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KL Forslund
Jun 9, 20203 min read
Slouching toward Apoapsis
I launched a Kerbal into orbit last week. Which required learning a bit about launching rockets and physics. It got me thinking about...
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KL Forslund
May 31, 20202 min read
A Change Has Got to Come
There might have been a time you could do a push-up or a pull-up. That your arm muscles could lift your own weight. But that ain’t...
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KL Forslund
May 19, 20206 min read
NI20: Why You Shouldn't Say Naughty Words
Captain Raptor stood next to Angus as the Ankylosaurus helmsman guided the ship with rugged paws, his tail swishing back and forth. The...
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KL Forslund
May 10, 20203 min read
Where the Ashes Are
The cops found my mom in Duluth. They looked at her ID, saw she was eighteen and left. She’d run away from her abusive mom while a...
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KL Forslund
May 7, 20201 min read
Late
I try to post these every weekend, sometimes falling to Monday. A home improvement project wore me out. A leak in the kitchen...
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KL Forslund
Apr 27, 20202 min read
Normal In Coronatime
We’re a month or two into Coronatime. We’ve avoided getting sick. We have toilet paper. That’s our family status. Life Under Lockdown...
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KL Forslund
Apr 19, 20203 min read
NI19: Picking Up Friends
#27 adjusted their pirate captain hat while they looked in the mirror. It didn’t quite sit well on a metal head, almost covering the...
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