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A Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre Pride Month Special: “Fisto’s Significant Other”

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Cora

I’m interrupting the steady stream of Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Obi-Wan Kenobi reviews for another Masters of the Universe action figure photo story. I was always planning to do more of these and I also posted a few … Continue reading →

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Secrets of Eternia: A Photo Story or Watch Cora Play with Action Figures, Part 2: The Origin of Teela

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Cora

It’s the second installment of a new series of posts which are basically me posing my Masters of the Universe Origins action figures to reenact scenes from the cartoons and my imagination. Part 1, where I discuss the secret identity … Continue reading →

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Secrets of Eternia: A Photo Story or Watch Cora Play with Action Figures, Part 1: The Secret Identity of He-Man

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Cora

Easter Monday was my birthday. There wasn’t much of a celebration, because my Mom is in hospital for hip replacement surgery, so it was just me and my Dad. Though I did get a nice haul of books, which you … Continue reading →

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The Power of Grayskull – Some Reflections on Part 2 of Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Posted on November 26, 2021 by Cora

The second half of Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Kevin Smith’s continuation of the original cartoon from the 1980s, just became available and I opted to watch that over the new Hawkeye show (which I will watch eventually) and Star … Continue reading →

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Foundation is “Preparing to Live” and deviates from the books a lot

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Cora

I’m still not sure, if this will be an ongoing series of episode by episode reviews, but I did watch the second episode of Foundation on this shit show of an election night. Reviews of previous episodes (well, just one … Continue reading →

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Eternia Revisited – Some Reflections on Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Cora

ETA: For my take on part 2 of Masters of the Universe: Revelation go here. Like everybody who was a kid in the early 1980s and had access to US cartoons, I watched the original He-Man and the Masters of … Continue reading →

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First Monday Free Fiction: Blasters of Forever

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Cora

Welcome to the August 2021 edition of First Monday Free Fiction. To recap, inspired by Kristine Kathryn Rusch who posts a free short story every week on her blog, I’ll post a free story on the first Monday of every … Continue reading →

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The 2021 July Short Story Challenge – Day by Day

Posted on July 4, 2021 by Cora

For starters, Smashwords is currently having its annual summer sale, where you can get plenty of e-books at reduced prices or for free, including several of mine. In other news, blogging will be light this month and the remaining two … Continue reading →

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A Trio of Spooky New Releases and Why I Cannot Write Straight Horror

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Cora

I mentioned that there would be one more new release announcement for October and here it is. It’s somewhat incomplete, because the links to Barnes & Noble are missing, since the bookseller recently suffered a cyberattack and still hasn’t managed … Continue reading →

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The Joy of Writing, How to Lose It and How to Get It Back

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Cora

First of all, I’d like to share a couple of promotions, because who doesn’t love free or cheap books? The first of those promotion is the Mirth & Mischief sale at Double-Cross Lit, where you can get fifteen e-books, including … Continue reading →

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