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Kevin Carlin

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Kevin Carlin is the host of the Moth StorySLAMs in Denver, Colorado. He has been featured on as well as guest hosted the Moth podcast, and loves all things to do with storytelling. His first novel, The Pacifists, is a lighthearted science fiction "space opera," which is about as far as you can get from the true stories he tells at the Moth. ...more

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Kevin Carlin I think I could be successful in a low-tech world like in the Patrick Rothfuss "Kingkiller Chronicles," or even Oz as depicted by Gregory Maguire in "…moreI think I could be successful in a low-tech world like in the Patrick Rothfuss "Kingkiller Chronicles," or even Oz as depicted by Gregory Maguire in "Wicked." I wouldn't do anything important to either story there. I'd probably be a baker or tavern keeper or something.(less)
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The Sound of Your Own Voice

The following is a piece from a writing group where we're given a prompt and then nine minutes to write whatever comes to mind. Just for fun, I'm posting some of them here:

Prompt: The Sound of Your Own Voice

It seems to be relatively unanimous that as humans, we all hate the sound of our own voice when heard on a recording. The voice inside our own heads is so much smoother, more assertive, sexier, Read more of this blog post »
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