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V.S.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at V.S.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Deep Zero
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A Dana Hargrove Double: Thursday's List and Homicide Chart (Dana Hargrove #1-2)
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Seven Shadows
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Forsaken Oath
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Thursday's List
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Homicide Chart
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Your Pick: Selected Stories
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Power Blind (Dana Hargrove #6)
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Indelicate Deception
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Love and Crime: Stories
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Free Short Story Substack
Closing out 2025, moving into 2026, I look forward to more fiction reading and writing.
In 2025, I started a (free to you!) Substack where I occasionally post short stories from my collections. Today, I posted “Reckoning” from my story collection Dust of the Universe, tales of family.
Click here to go to “Reckoning.”
While you're over there, take a look through my other Substack posts. “Reckonin Read more of this blog post »
In 2025, I started a (free to you!) Substack where I occasionally post short stories from my collections. Today, I posted “Reckoning” from my story collection Dust of the Universe, tales of family.
Click here to go to “Reckoning.”
While you're over there, take a look through my other Substack posts. “Reckonin Read more of this blog post »
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She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.
Who wants war? Do you? It’s the last thing I want. Or one of the last things. Honestly, I’d rather not die, or have my loved ones die, before not wanting any more war. But as a writer, I have to imagine that there are some people out there who want war. Or aren’t adverse to it. Or think it’s something necessary if unpleasant. These people are too often the ones that don’t have to go to war but stand to benefit from it. Or can cheer it piously from a distance. Or think war is an adventure, until they actually experience it. By then it’s too late. Even if they share their wisdom with a new
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(Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)
I heard this from a Japanese professor in Tokyo during a wonderful sashimi dinner where I was the guest as a visiting lecturer. The dinner was, for me, free. But the mild implication was that there was now a web of obligation in which I was caught. I haven’t yet had the chance to repay that hospitality. But what the professor said has always remained with me, as it’s probably true. At least in some cases.
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As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape.
It’s also human nature to see the world and its conflicts as battles between right and wrong. Good and evil. If only things were so simple. Hegel is absolutely correct here. Any side in a conflict usually does see itself as right and the other side as wrong, but the other side feels exactly the same way. Hence, right versus right. How do you solve that? It’s very unfortunate in real life. In a novel, it’s exactly the type of dilemma that creates drama.
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“She’d discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from hard work.”
― Malocclusion, tales of misdemeanor
― Malocclusion, tales of misdemeanor
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there was something waiting for her on the other side of this crowd.”
― Thursday's List
― Thursday's List
“Rage and despair shook her for minutes or hours. She was unaware of the passage of time. Finally spent, she retreated inward and collapsed onto the floor in a fetal position, the letter in shreds around her. The room had grown dark. Like a gentle snowfall, the cold mantle of an unbearable silence descended.”
― Homicide Chart
― Homicide Chart
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Making Connections: 875. MALOCCLUSION, TALES OF A MISDEMEANOR by V.S. Kemanis | 1 | 9 | Feb 13, 2013 07:56PM | |
| Making Connections: 876. EVERYONE BUT US, TALES OF WOMEN by V.S. Kemanis | 1 | 10 | Feb 13, 2013 07:58PM | |
| Making Connections: 877. DUST OF THE UNIVERSE, TALES OF FAMILY by V.S. Kemanis | 1 | 11 | Feb 13, 2013 07:59PM | |
| Making Connections: 874. THURSDAY'S LIST, A DANA HARGROVE LEGAL MYSTERY by V.S. Kemanis | 3 | 28 | Apr 21, 2013 05:14PM | |
| Goodreads Librari...: Adding "about author" to a book | 2 | 13 | Dec 31, 2016 01:59PM | |
| Goodreads Authors...: Review Copies Available | 1 | 9 | Feb 13, 2017 07:06PM | |
| Creative Reviews: If you enjoy literary fiction: ARCs available | 1 | 4 | Feb 14, 2017 05:00PM | |
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| Precinct 81: Group #3: (Fff) Lusie, Ashley and MH | 479 | 23 | Dec 07, 2018 05:01AM |
“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― State of Wonder
― State of Wonder
“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”
― Point Omega
― Point Omega
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
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Dec 02, 2016 07:41AM
VS, thanks so much for noticing the Killer Nashville nom. I'm sorry I didn't see this till now!
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VS, thanks so much for noticing the Killer Nashville nom. I'm sorry I didn't see this till now!
Jill wrote: "Great to meet you V.S., and thank you for your friendship here on GRs. We seem to have gone along the same journey with sociology, the legal profession and the ballet. Amazing!"Thanks, Jill! Interesting that I've met several lawyers in ballet class--must be all that discipline!
Great to meet you V.S., and thank you for your friendship here on GRs. We seem to have gone along the same journey with sociology, the legal profession and the ballet. Amazing!
