The Unit 4.10: “Mislead and Misguided” November 30th, 2008 by Mike Rubino — CBS, Reviews This week’s episode of The Unit features a royal mess of storytelling that managed to be fairly compelling. Kim’s babysitting storyline comes to a thrilling close as The Unit is sent on a wild goose chase by guest star Michael McKean.

This series chronicles my Interactive Storytelling bedtime stories with my kids. Today is a chronicle of the short session I had with Rory, my 5 year old daughter. Chatty: So sweetie, do you want to try making a story like I do with Nico? Rory: Yes Daddy! I’m going to be Cartain the Warrior Princess that can summons many many many faerie friends! They are all like me! Okay, so how do we start this? Well, I’m wearing a beautiful blue blouse… except its a bit dirty. Because you like to fi

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Ray: [Mouryou no Hako is] too slow paced and by the 10 minute mark I got bored. No, it’s not yaoi, I get that, but I honestly don’t see it as a great show. It’s just dressed up with surealism and bizzaro-ness. Mike: It’s definitely slower paced, sure. But I don’t really have a problem with the pacing; the show has a lot of elements to it and they are slowly being put together. And I find those elements very intriguing. Ray: To me, the weirder it is, the more I see it as allegorical or ra

(First published in Fantasy Book Critic) The Drowned Life is the newest collection by Jeffrey Ford, one of the most acclaimed writers in the field, especially recognized for his short stories. There are sixteen stories in The Drowned Life, distributed over 290 pages. Some of them are pure fantasy, while others have no speculative elements of note. Most of them though, could be put in the magic realism field, or stories that are grounded in reality but not quite so. In other words, some unexpla