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About Me

David McLain graduated from Purchase College, where he directed a production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. His stories have appeared in over a dozen publications, most notably: Harvard's Dudley Review, Paumanok Review, Soma Literary Review, Bellowing Ark, Nite Blade and the Taj Mahal Review. He lives in Western Massachusetts.

My Blog

A rejection lettler I just got

Dear Dave,Thank you for submitting "Pa Cheese and the Fabulous Wright Flyer." I apologize for taking so long to get back to you - particularly since I just realized that it's just too long for us. Sor...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:10:00 GMT

Edward De Vere was an idiot

I read a Shakepeare biography recently, and it reminded me of how much I loved reading him when I was a kid.  It was a fne biography, but the author spent a lot of time explaining how the ca...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:15:00 GMT

Bad Mood

Something about working eleven out of twelve days in a row puts me in a reaallly bad mood. The strange thing about this is I have to explain it to people, including my wife, who has worked three and ...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:53:00 GMT

fuck printers

You know, the older I get, the harder it becomes to express myself, because people count on me not to go off of the deep end. I try to find ways around this, but it's hard. I miss the days when I coul...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:59:00 GMT

Gawaine and the Greene Knight

To the unknown poet who wrote Gawaine and the Greene Knight:You are a perveted genius.To James Whinny, the guy who wrote the translation on the opposing page of my copy of Gawaine:You are a pinhead.
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 20:31:00 GMT

anger

I wonder what it is about message boards that makes people so angry. I was in a writing message board and made some off hand joke about how we were all going to be famous someday. I compared the messa...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:12:00 GMT

I finished the book

I finished the first draft of my book about 1 am two nights ago. The first draft is 121,888 words. I need to cut at least 15k now. After that we start submissions. 
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:40:00 GMT

The reason that American voting is so backward..

I don't mean to suggest that young people don't vote, but tonight's election coverage is brought to us by depends undergarments, geritol and some kind of blood pressure medication.
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:41:00 GMT

The toast I gave at my brothers wedding.

For those of you who don't know me my name is Dave, and I'll be the playing the prodigal brother in this little play. Also, for those of who were at the rehearsal  dinner, I'd just like to say th...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:22:00 GMT

I am Ford Prefect.

There's this astronomy board I go to, and whenever I'm there I end up making fun of all the astrophysicists. Doug, where ever you are I miss you.  
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:23:00 GMT