When you live a certain amount of your life online, you “meet” people from here and there, right? Sometimes, you find yourself in the vicinity of one of those people. Sometimes, you actually get to meet an online friend. Yeah, true, sometimes you get murdered…

Not really. But sort of. If you don’t know what a Mary Sue is, go read this discussion on fanfiction.net. You still won’t know, but you’ll be highly entertained. A Mary Sue is, by general consensus, a female character who irritates people other than the…

In honor of summer, here is a selection of summer haiku. Don’t panic; only three of them. Summer Haiku by Marian Allen Dual hummingbirds battle at the feeder. Two Cyranos duel. The dog sighs, pressing a dog-shape into the grass, thumbprint of the sun. Mantis…