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Susan diRende

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Susan diRende is a writer and artist with roots in live performance. At 20, she ran away from college and joined a circus where she learned how to play with the boundaries in order to get a laugh. Ever since then, she has been writing, painting, performing, and filming stories aimed at illumination and transformation through laughter. In 2005, Susan founded Broad Humor, a film festival for women’s comedies which has been named one of the top 5 film festivals for women. She has won awards as a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and performer. A multilingual US/EU citizen, she currently is living the vagabond life with no fixed abode, chasing images and ideas wherever the impulse leads.

Sea Change appears in October Issue of Penumbric

Put Rapunzel, the Jovian moon, Europa, the NASA mock “Space Tourism” posters, and octopuses together in a story and you have Sea Change. In this case, the prisoner is a genetically modified intelligent octopus designed for the underwater seas of Europa and the Prince is a researcher at the laboratory studying the environment.

The story takes the bones of the fable, the imprisonment of a depende

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Knife Witch by Susan diRende
"When barbarian sea raiders attack her village, a kitchen girl fights back with the only weapons she has, her boning knives, accidentally convincing the raiders she must be a witch. It just so happens they’re used to witches, as the islands where they" Read more of this review »
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"Do you like Pratchett, Adams, Gaiman? This book fits right in with them. The author’s ability to weave the story with wry whit and honeyed sarcasm is masterful. This story rolls like the waves that take the Knife Witch from her life as a kitchen girl" Read more of this review »
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Seagoing raiders, establishment witches, an evil Emperor, a volcano, and a lovelorn kraken, who all put our heroine, the Knife Witch, through her paces and goad her, much to her annoyance, to evolve and reveal her tr" Read more of this review »
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“Freud thought about what a cigar represented, but he didn't go far enough. If you've ever known a man who smokes a cigar, think about the time he lavishes on his humidor, a box temperature and moisture controlled to keep them plump, and you understand the concept I call "box envy.”
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“Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed.”
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“Freud thought about what a cigar represented, but he didn't go far enough. If you've ever known a man who smokes a cigar, think about the time he lavishes on his humidor, a box temperature and moisture controlled to keep them plump, and you understand the concept I call "box envy.”
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