Theodore McCombs

Across four 2-hour classes, we’ll read and discuss classic SF/F short stories, old and new, that offer an intensified look at craft issues like exposition, narrator, and time. I had a lot of fun teaching this and can’t wait to talk about some of my favorite stories ever written.

Come write with me! At @lighthousewriters we’re bringing back my hit 4-week craft seminar, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Robots: Craft Lessons from Speculative Short Fiction.” (Sign up at lighthousewriters dot org)

Say goodnight to the "Man in the Wall" by @mrbruff Read the first pages of the story here: southernhumanitiesreview.com/583-man-in-the… #litmag #WritingCommunity #fiction

All levels and all genres welcome! While we'll do some in-class exercises, this is a craft seminar, not a workshop. DM me for any questions, and here's that link! lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-w... (4/4)

Week 2, Exposition and Conflict - Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild" - Ted Chiang, "Exhalation" Week 3, Time - Ken Liu, "Seven Birthdays" - Aimee Bender, "The Leading Man" Week 4, Speculative Sentences - Samuel R. Delaney, "Aye, and Gomorrah" - Cesar Aira, "The Musical Brain" (3/4)

In one month! I'll be teaching a 4-session online seminar through the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, "Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Robots: Craft Lessons from Speculative Fiction." Four Wednesday evenings, March 19 to April 9. Registration link below: (1/4)

And, if we have time, we'll do paragraph-level read of the opening to Chekhov's novella "The Black Monk" and the bravura reality-warping passage from Carmen Maria Machado's "Mothers." (WandaVision should be writing her checks IMO)

It's impossible to narrow this topic to a handful of stories, but I want us to look at Mavis Gallant and Elizabeth McCracken's ghost stories "From the Fifteenth District" and "Something Amazing" (two favorites), and magical realism in Gabo's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."

Hey everyone, in two weeks I'll be teaching an online seminar though @lighthousewrite, on realist fiction with unreality at its center. Details below and at the sign-up link below. Anyone can register. I cannot wait to dive into these stories together!

@meakoopa I can kind of see Bella Swan voting for Trump. Steve Rogers? Only if a cosmic cube is involved

this is some nonsense Frasier Crane AND Hannibal Lecter would BOTH host fundraisers for Harris be for real

@Jordanbloked This is Almodovar’s “A Strange Way of Life” isn’t it? I haven’t seen it yet but I think it’s from that one?

sorry quick sidebar what is this movie called? if someone could let me know as fast as humanly possible that’d be great

@katemond Fancy name for Instagram likes

RT @BetterPitchGuy: Single worst piece of software ever invented

@meakoopa I’m picturing this as the most exquisite In Memoriam slideshow ever to be screened in the Kodak Theater

if the Last Judgment is real i feel like you should be able to opt-out for fast-pass auto-Hell instead of making everyone who ever lived watch a highlight-reel of all the times i was cranking it

@ArtSergeiTitov @meakoopa Iceman gets an (ice)bucket hat!

Original four. (I have idea for Warren design in my sketches but didn’t see him in this lineup, so he’ll show up later)

@nicomuhly If you like Piña Bausch / and getting caught in the Rhine 💃🏻

Thanks, autocorrect, for suggesting “the choreographer Piña Bauch” - just gonna stick with that from now on

@meakoopa Different franchise gag but

this is great bc it means Oscar Isaac will have played Jesus, his father Joseph in NATIVITY STORY (2006), and Jesus’s great great grandfather En Sabah Nur in X-MEN APOCALYPSE (2016)