{"id":526,"date":"2011-05-15T15:09:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T20:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2011-05-15T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T20:14:30","slug":"introducing-sunday-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Sunday Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s been suggested by a dear friend that I should stop yammering on in endless blogs and begin introducing you to my\u00a0actual writing. After I let said\u00a0friend out of a textbook sleeper-hold, I\u00a0revived her with smelling salts and\u00a0demanded to know\u00a0what the fuck she meant by that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>H:\u00a0 Well your blogs are very cute, AJ, but &#8230; it&#8217;s not &#8220;<em>real writing&#8221;.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s right, she went there: the double-whammy of\u00a0cute and &#8220;not real writing&#8221;, peppered with audible air quotes. DREAD! HORROR! BIG OWIES! I blinked rapidly, wondering how many people\u00a0could place me\u00a0here today if it became a crime scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AJ *slow-spreading smile*: Hey, H? C&#8217;mere for a sec.<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-536\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?attachment_id=536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-536\" title=\"DSC04262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/DSC04262-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/DSC04262-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/DSC04262.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>H: Holy shit, what moron\u00a0gave you the garden claw?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AJ: I&#8217;m\u00a0&#8220;weeding&#8221;. Ya,\u00a0hear them air quotes? Suck real bad, don&#8217;t they?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But she was right, so I let her live to read for me another day. Miss H is entirely irreplaceable, in that her sometimes-stinging support drives me to do my best. Blogging is writing, but it isn&#8217;t what\u00a0I do. I wouldn&#8217;t call myself a &#8220;blogger&#8221;. I am a &#8220;writer&#8221;.\u00a0Blogging is\u00a0not what I endeavour to master, nor is it what I spend most of my time working on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sooooo, once a month or so, I&#8217;ll pop up an excerpt of my current WIP (work in progress), or a short story, or poetry (<em>ha! OK I tried to say that with a straight face, but you won&#8217;t see anything remotely poetic comin&#8217; from these grey cells, no sir<\/em>), or\u00a0a wee\u00a0flash fiction &#8230; starting today, with the horror short <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?page_id=505\"><strong>BOTTOMS UP<\/strong><\/a><strong>. I hope you enjoy. Comments\/criticism always welcome, and\u00a0probably I won&#8217;t\u00a0hit you with a shovel if your words cockslap me in the soul\u00a0 (warning: fingers\u00a0may or may not\u00a0be\u00a0crossed behind my back).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-528\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?attachment_id=528\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-528\" title=\"0000005754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/0000005754-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/0000005754-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/0000005754.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been suggested by a dear friend that I should stop yammering on in endless blogs and begin introducing you to my\u00a0actual writing. After I let said\u00a0friend out of a textbook sleeper-hold, I\u00a0revived her with smelling salts and\u00a0demanded to know\u00a0what the fuck she meant by that? 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