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Mar 8, 20232 min read
Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 4
By Tom Anderson, Monroe Templeton, Phillip Clarke and Wm. Garrett Cothran In the previous article in this series, we looked at the idea...
Aug 19, 20207 min read
The First Superhero... wants you to die for the Emperor!
By Wm. Garrett Cothran Think of the history of comic books. Not the funny little periodicals of Sunday funnies reprinted to make money....
Jun 10, 20207 min read
How James Cameron Led to the LA Riots
By Wm. Garrett Cothran Alright so the title itself is what made you decide to read this I suspect. How on earth would a film maker, the...
May 4, 20206 min read
CSI: Rome - a dive into ancient forensics
By Wm. Garrett Cothran You find yourself in Ancient Rome. Close to c. 75. You are in a forum and awaiting the trial. As a Roman this is...
Nov 21, 201911 min read
Alternate Crimes: Conspiracy theories, Assassinations, and Salad Oil Swindles
By Wm Garrett Cothran Conspiracies and history seem to go hand in hand. Lurking in the shadows behind every fact, there is the “real...
Nov 7, 201910 min read
Alternate Crimes: I suppose you're all wondering why I've gathered you here...
By Wm. Garret Cothran For a moment, close your eyes. You are in a room, pipe in hand, deer stalker on the coffee table. All around you...
Oct 24, 20197 min read
Planning a Heist
By Wm. Garret Cothran While this series has tended to focus on crime in a general sense, it has been shifting to focus more on how people...
Oct 10, 201912 min read
Writing a Wrong: The Only Time You Get To Plan a Murder
By Wm. Garret Cothran If one is writing a story and it requires a little murder, mayhem or even a touch of the macabre to get things...
Sep 26, 201911 min read
Locked Room Crimes
By Wm. Garret Cothran Crime is fun. Some will disagree but, in all honesty, people love crime. White collar or blue collar. Serial...
Sep 12, 201910 min read
Alternate Crimes: The Community
By Wm Garrett Cothran “You know, I hadn't realized before how much non-crime fiction just sort of ignores the fact that crime is a thing...
Aug 31, 20199 min read
Crime, Killers, and Alternate History
By Wm. Garrett Cothran Everyone has thoughts on time travel. If one thinks of time travel, they in effect think of alternate history. Yet...
Oct 17, 20185 min read
Space Filler Half Empty
By William Garrett Cothran At some point everyone has come across a TV show, film, novel, or even video game in which a world is...
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