Author Archives: Sezin

My First Guest Post of 2011: Dreamcatchers

Dreams via Blue Mountain

My first guest post of the Year of the Rabbit goes live! Here’s hoping blog posts breed like bunnies. :-)

The Gnome’s Home

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Even gnomes are bothered by the cruel Prague weather. Chapter 7 of “The Secret Life of Stone”.

Zuzu Irwin’s Brush with a Bengal Tiger

An Imaginary Portrait of Mabel Stark

A fitting end to the Year of the Tiger.

The Culture of Violence

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“I hold Sarah Palin responsible for all the deaths that took place in Tucson.” A new hybrid/AMBASSADORS blogring on the recent shootings in Tucson, Arizona.

Zuzu Irwin and the Crocodile Farm

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The second installment in the Zuzu Irwin global safari series: Zuzu and her family visit the largest crocodile farm in the world.

The Moanster

Another strange encounter with a Prague creature: The Moanster.

No-Fo-Me-You

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The Stephen King Challenge starts with a bang: Cell. Happy 2011!

A Love Letter to 2011

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Happy New Year from ZuzuLandia!

The Stephen King Challenge 2011

Announcing my participation in the 2011 Stephen King Challenge! Organised by Book Chick City, read and review 6, or 12, or more Stephen King works in 2011. Get your read on!

A Love Letter to Haters

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A “Friday the 13th”-inspired installment of Zuzu’s Love Letter Project.

Storm of the Century

Trapped on a freezing tram in a blizzard that shuts down Prague’s public transportation. A real-life nightmare.

Why I Won’t “Win” NaNoWriMo

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My crazy-quilting inspired creative process goes against the NaNoWriMo grain of racking up a 50,000 word count in 30 days.

Monster Brawl

My newest expat+HAREM collaboration is live: Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball turned violent in Prague when attendees were not allowed to dance.

Friend and Foe

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Two very different perspectives of side-by-side Prague statues. Chapter 6 of “The Secret Life of Stone”.

National Novel Writing Month

A quick note about my participation in National Novel Writing Month. Yeah!

A Love Letter to Narcissus Personified

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Your song is in the key of boring.

My Foreign Body

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My newest guest post for the stellar expat+HAREM poses the question: Do warm places make warmer people?

Portrait of a Vampire

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Chapter 5 in The Secret Life of Stone, Zuzu explores one of Prague’s little-known denizens: The Vampire.

A Love Letter To Grief

Approaching the ten-year memorial of my dear friend Wendy’s murder and I am struggling, still, to process the event and all the time that has passed.

A Secret Life of Stone

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An eerie new lens on Kostel Jana, Prague. Chapter 4 of The Secret Life of Stone.

Zuzu Irwin Dreams With Jellyfish

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The first installment in a new Zuzu’s Petal series, Zuzu Irwin’s Global Safari, that explores an amazing encounter at the Long Beach Aquarium in 2001 and its reverberations to today.

The Old Man and the Vltava

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Something monstrous lurks in Prague’s Vltava River, and it isn’t toxic sludge from Hungary. Chapter 3 in The Secret Life of Stone.

A New First

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My first ever piece of flash fiction is published in Glossolalia Magazine! Yeah!

The Vicar’s House

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This guy is up to no good. No good at all. Chapter 2 of The Secret Life of Stone.

Remnants

The Past, oil pastel on paper by Sezin, 2003

The looming memorial of the September 11, 2001 tragedy has me thinking about things left behind.

“With/out borders” on the expat+HAREM

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My newest expat+HAREM post, “With/out borders”, is featured on their beautiful site for the next week.

Whites Only?

'Nuff said.

A She Writes blog post by an African-American woman calling for “White Ambassadors To Help Me Cross Over” provokes a blog series, in which this piece is one of seven reactions.

Surround Yourself With Women – The Unedited Version

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From our inaugural guest poster, Yancy Jack Berns, we give you a beautiful piece about why it is important to surround yourself with women.

A Love Letter To Beloved Dead

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My friend Catherine’s amazing expat+HAREM post “Death at a distance”, one of the most powerful essays I have ever read, has left me processing a great deal of unresolved grief.

This Is What My Blog Looks Like On Writer’s Block:

*Le sigh*

The Cobblers

The work of a Prague Cobbler.

Zuzu narrates a strange Prague encounter with creatures she calls Cobblers. Chapter 1 of The Secret Life of Stone.

The Healing Power of Horror

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From MARTYRS to AMERICAN MONSTERS to psychological methods of trauma healing to Toni Morrison’s Beloved to Cold Case while discussing the healing powers of horror stories. (But no Lady Gaga this time :-)

On Dreams, Suffering and the French Film MARTYRS

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I was reminded of a strange dream I had a few years ago after recently watching the brilliant French film MARTYRS, and of course also manage to tie this back to Lady Gaga. ;-)

Self-Referentiality: Internal monologue turned external dialogue

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What do the expat+HAREM, Dialogue 2010 and Lady Gaga have in common?

Intertextuality and Irony in Lady Gaga’s PAPARAZZI

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My submission for this week’s www.RedRoom.com themed blog competition on “What is your favorite pop song?”