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  • My first professional sale was Waltz In Flexitime, a nifty, quickfooted little time-travel story which appeared ...

    2009 February « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • My first professional sale was Waltz In Flexitime, a nifty, quickfooted little time-travel story which appeared in Other Edens 2, a paperback anthology edited by Robert Holdstock and Chris Evans although Roger Robinson will tell you that my first professional acceptance was a drabble entitled Concrete Fire, a 100-word vignette, all cyberpunk moodyness, which appeared in the 1st Beccon Drabble collection, The Drabble Project.

    Iron Mosaic: Short Stories, Tall Tales, Condensed Epics, And Enigmatic Narratives « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • My first professional sale was Waltz In Flexitime, a nifty, quickfooted little time-travel story which appeared ...

    2009 February 17 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • Andrea shot by, unable to check himself; and the pursuers soon found themselves in a labyrinth in which it was vain to pursue a quickfooted fugitive who knew every inch of it, and could now only be followed by the ear.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

  • Scarf-sellers, whores, and match and noodle vendors rubbed elbows with bourgeois ladies out for walks with their companions, clerks hurrying to their countinghouses, crossing-sweepers busily clearing horse dung out of the way for a copper, chimney sweeps, pickpockets, constables in red and blue uniforms, and butchers 'boys driving their quickfooted ponies and trailed by gangs of yapping pariah dogs.

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

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