On Being a Woman :: A Story 2
Contemplating the concept of being a woman leads me to rewrite Metamorphosis by Kafka with a female protagonist.
Write.
Have your book and eat it too
“Does your novel contain recipes?” I kept getting asked whenever I told somebody about what I was working on. “No” I would answer. But, after being asked the same question about 20 times, I clued in that I need to find a way to say “yes”. “This is something that […]
Spoonful Chronicles – a novel with recipes 12
To discover the purpose of her life, one woman must recount everything she has ever eaten. A novel with recipes.
Lift Off!
Ladies and Gentlemen! We have a lift off. Spoonful Chronicles is now available for sale online. Details: http://ihath.com/spoonful-chronicles/
3 days till book launch
This foodie fiction novel tastes so good you will want to stick it in a pan and fry it.
5 days till book launch
My foody fiction novel is about to launch and here is the book trailer. Spoonful Chronicles is about to be mistaken for a roast. The confused cook roasts and is about to slice when the book declares its true identity. All ends well.
7 days till book launch
My foodie fiction is about to launch. I dress as a carrot to impersonate a vegetable reading the book. The giant carrot is deeply upset but what it reads.
8 days till book launch
The secret behind the enigmatic smile is revealed. The Mona Lisa reads my foodie fiction novel and is transformed by the experience.
It’s the final count down
Tomorrow starts the count down to the launch of Spoonful Chronicles. Expect daily new fun content. It’s my version of an online party. Here is something to set the mood.
Planned Surprise 2
Life is full of surprises my dear friend. Snow in March in Vancouver. The sun making a brief appearance after weeks and weeks of rain. Receiving a package in the mail to discover that an overseas friend sent you a gift for no reason at all–they simply felt like it. […]
Foodie Fiction Feast 3
Where I dive into food fiction feast for months and emerge with a list of favorites.
Spoonful Chronicles Striptease: Book cover art reveal.
Drum roll please! Tada! Here is the cover art design for Spoonful Chronicles-A novel with recipes.
Interview with Deborah Campbell Author of A Disappearance in Damascus
A story of friendship between two women. One Canadian, the other Iraqi. Both must find strength to deal with gigantic difficulties. This is the story of A Disappearance in Damascus. What I appreciated most about the book is the detailed portrayal of life of an Iraqi refugee in Syria around […]
A Picture Book for Free
A picture book for free about a garden gnome that wants to become a computer programmer.
If Quentin Tarantino Wrote Snow White :: Story Mashup
This is the story of Snow White Tarantino style.
Pot-bellied Snow White gorges herself on blueberry pancakes after a revenge killing spree. Wait until Prince Charming gets a hold of all this….how will he react?
Watch this video first and then read the full story below.
Chapter 1
Mirror
“Mirror mirror on the wall, who has killed the most of all” Asked the queen.
On this day, unlike all the days that came before it, there was a new answer.
Chapter 2
The Seven Short Psychopaths in Black Suits
Each one was named after his favorite method. Strangler. Shooter. Cleaver. Author used a sharp pen. Crusher, Poison and Tickler. All seven where happy to meet a woman who didn’t try to change them.
Now if this was a proper Quentin Tarantino story it would be peppered with the N-word. Our narrator refused to cooperate with our effort towards authenticity. So you have to use your imagination.
The Queen appeared in Snow White’s car.
“Hey, young woman, would you like a burger?”
“No thank you!”
“But this is a french burger. Do you know what they call these in France?”
“What?”
“Royale With Cheese”
“O cool!”
Snow white goes into a deep coma.
Chapter 3
The Coma Rapist
Prince charming had a thing for women in a coma after seeing the movie “Talk to Her”. He was about to kiss snow white when she woke up. In a fit of rage she killed the price, the queen, some guy called Bill for no apparent reason and those annoying chirping birds that keep hovering around her head.
Chapter 4
The Banquet
Snow ate tons of blueberry pancakes and developed a pot belly.
The End.
Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you.” Now… I been sayin’ that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. You’d be dead right now. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin’ made me think twice. See, now I’m thinking: maybe it means you’re the evil man. And I’m the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here… he’s the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you’re the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. And I’d like that. But that shit ain’t the truth. The truth is you’re the weak. And I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be the shepherd.
Pulp Fiction is one of those movies. You watch it once and it lingers in your imagination. Like that scene with Samuel L. Jackson quoting from the bible. I can never un-see that. It is stuck inside my mind.
This is an experiment in story mashup. I have many many ideas similar to this. Making this video was tons of fun. I laughed so much while making it. Thinking of ways to stick Kill Bill, Django Unchained and Pulp Fiction into the story of Snow White. This is Snow White Tarantino style. I decided to keep the video short, rely on the fact that most people already know the story. I don’t need to tell the whole tale, only the bits that are different.
So what other story mashup should I do next? Please tell me.
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Story of a Fish :: Flamenco Dance Story 3
I signed up to participate in the Vancouver Story Slam on March 8th. I took a story from my novel Graffiti Hack and worked on it to shorten it so that it would fit in the 5 minute time limit. My novel is a story that has several stories within […]