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When Sydney and I first saw the published photo of the "monster hog" shot by an 11-year-old at Lost Creek Plantation , a commercia...

The next time I read about someone who sincerely believes he saw something uncanny in the sky, I'll remember this story from the May 31 ...

This obituary in today's Cumberland Times-News includes a cause of death I've never seen in an obit before: BEDFORD, Pa. -- Jessic...

Megan Hott of Keyser, W.Va., last seen here wearing a "No one cares about your blog" T-shirt , writes: this is too weird... Whethe...

In April, I posted this : My family owns about 80 acres of woodland in Saluda County, S.C., acreage on which -- I grew up being told -- U.S....

Here's Paul Di Filippo's report from the Georgia memorial service, with information about a second fund that's accepting contri...

Perennially popular before the Internet, and downright inescapable since the Internet, are lists of "amazing coincidences," such a...

Here's a puzzler in Australia: a catamaran found adrift off the Great Barrier Reef, its three crew members missing, its engine and comp...

Here's a recent AP story about Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, founder of the Growing in Grace church in Miami, who has thousands of follow...

Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz and Mr. T will reunite on the British paranormal show Most Haunted in an attempt to contact George Peppard, ...

If you're planning any prom bedding this year, this sign on Main Street in Frostburg is a reminder that a deluxe corsage can help your c...

I like Dean Barnett's take, at The Weekly Standard , on the flap about Mitt Romney and his favorite book -- which Romney originally sa...

In Chapter 5 of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (specifically, on Page 54 of the U.S. hardcover), is this paragraph:...

One of Sydney's former students at the University of Alabama, the actor Stephen Tyrone Williams, sends along this publicity shot and new...

At Halloween, a news story reminded me of an old Lights Out episode. Now a news story about a boy who discovered spiders living in his e...

Anne Harris ( this one , I believe) writes: So what is the beef with wind farms? I'd really like to know, since my novel includes a comm...

The new Philip K. Dick volume promped Sydney and me to think out loud about other authors who deserve Library of America editions, and we ...

One of the first acts of the new president at Frostburg State University , where Sydney teaches, has been to sign the American College &...

"Trucking journalist/science fiction writer" may be, ahem, one of the oddest job descriptions in Allegany County, Md., but I thin...

Locus published five of my ICFA photos in the May issue and paid me $10 apiece -- the first free-lance money I ever made taking photograp...