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| User: | cloudscudding (547225)  Improbability is in the Details
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| Name: | Abra Staffin Wiebe | |||||||
| Website: | http://www.aswiebe.com | |||||||
| Location: | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States | |||||||
| Birthdate: | 06-03 | |||||||
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| Bio: |  Growing up, I spent several years living abroad in India and Africa, with intermittent years in Kansas. I came to Minnesota to go to college. I was planning to continue my international lifestyle afterwards, but I married a mad scientist and settled down to live and write in Minneapolis instead. My three main interests are writing (spec-fic), photography (urban decay and incongruity), and martial arts (Tae Soo Do). Most of my posts are about these things or random things I stumble across. Writing My first novel, Serenade of Blood & Silver, is a fantasy about a drifter who rescues an abused horse that is not what it seems. When they flee into the Far Desert to escape pursuit, they sign their death warrants, and the only way they can survive is if they learn to rely on each other. The setting of Serenade of Blood & Silver is influenced by the American Old West and by sub-Saharan West Africa, where I lived for three years. This is at the "I stuck a fork in it and called it done until somebody pays me to make changes" stage, and I'm busy courting publishers and agents for it. My second novel, Vicesteed, is a neo-Victorian science fiction novel that is equal proportions locked-room murder mystery, exploration of how society forms identity, and high-octane quest for vengeance. The style it is written in can be compared in parts to Stephenson's Diamond Age. Think of it as the bastard love-child of Bladerunner and Sense & Sensibility. Hey, it's my userinfo page; I can use as much hyperbole as I like! A chapter excerpt can be found here. Vicesteed is currently in the editing phase. I keep a freewriting journal at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} penthius (friend it and get a snippet of fiction on your friends' page every day!).Before I got caught up in writing my novels, I did publish a couple of short stories. I'm paying more attention to short story writing again now, until I figure out what my next major project will be. * "Waiting," Alienskin Magazine, April 2003 Issue * "The Perfect Costume," Dark Krypt Horror Zine, Oct/Nov 2003 Issue * "Blood for Oil," Allegory - formerly Peridot Books - September 2006 Issue * "Periwinkle Eyes" - Art Times, forthcoming  From Thanksgiving to Christmas, I'm running a speculative winter holiday-themed contest for fiction, artwork and poetry: Spec the Halls. Go there to submit or to read the submissions. Photography You can see some of my photography on my website (although I desperately need to update and redesign it). I have a Flickr account at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aswiebe/. Some, but not all, of the photographs that I post there are also posted here. One of my photographs was also used as cover art for Queen of the Country, a posthumous commemorative volume of dark, surreal short stories by D.G.K. Goldberg. Martial Arts I'm a student at the Minneapolis Hwa Rang Do Academy of Healing and Martial Arts. Hwa Rang Do is a Korean martial art that incorporates both hard-style punching and kicking and soft-style grappling, groundfighting, joint manipulation, pressure points, etc. It also has a strong focus on weapons. Throw in healing and meditation, and you'll begin to get an idea of what Hwa Rang Do is. Right now I'm a half-black belt in Tae Soo Do, the undergraduate version.
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| Memories: | 104 entries | |||||||
| Pictures: | over 100 public | |||||||
| Interests: | 66: abandoned treasure, alley windows, bat-wrangling, becoming rich and famous, being published, biology, blue snow, boots, carnivals, cats, chiaroscuro, climbing trees, cloves, contortionists, critters, dark alleys, detritus, dreams, dried roses, eavesdropping, ecofreaks, eggrolls, fantasy, fighting, fulani, fuzzy things, gaming, german country-style sausage, hallucinations, hong-kong action films, hwa rang do, hypermnesia, icicles, identity, industrial music, knives, literary agents, magic realism, martial arts, memory, movie theatres, neurochemistry, old buildings, parmesan, peeling paint, photography, redhots, rooftops, ruby, science fiction, shadows, shiny things, strangers, t'chad, the apocalypse, the circus, the crystal palace exhibition, the old west, trenchcoats, victorian england, water wars, wine, words, writing, your fire escape ladder, zoetropes | |||||||
| Schools: | Macalester College - St. Paul, MN Woodstock - Mussoorie, Uttar Pradesh, India (1996 - 1997) | |||||||
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