Crime Fiction has its own special sins. Some cop's dinner is always getting puked in the gutter. They always hover over the nubile female vic all "What a waste."The Serial Killer italic flashback. Don't hold my fingers over the stove, Mommy. But Mommy always did. To purify Roger's flesh. Roger hated Mommy

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See, I have no idea whether my eyes are expressive or not...

I can't imagine that they're not. I only know you online and the phone, but it seems to be you are an expression delivery mechanism. I meant that in the best way. There's a particular life to you--a vividness that manages to come across, even at a distance. I suspect that in person, you could kindle a fire with a glance.

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How do people make expressions, if not with their eyes? That's jackass. (She said, rolling her expressive eyeballs....)

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rolling her expressive eyeballs....

Come on, 7! Baby needs shoes!

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snake eyes!

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The Serial Killer italic flashback. Don't hold my fingers over the stove, Mommy. But Mommy always did. To purify Roger's flesh. Roger hated Mommy

This is hilarious.

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It's funny cause it's true, Robin. Sadly. It's getting so I never want to read *anything* about that, between the dime-store psych and overused Catholic iconography...it's still weird to think "Bor-ring." at a time like that, though. But I'm picky now and less likely to accept airport paperbacks than I was BDS(Before David Simon)

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How do people make expressions, if not with their eyes? That's jackass. (She said, rolling her expressive eyeballs....)

Ah, but when you're rolling your eyes? Think about what the rest of yourt facial muscles are doing, and whether holding every other muscle in your face perfectly still, while simply moving your eyeballs around, would convey anything other than a sort of fascinated "whoa..." reaction in those around you.

Her dislike of it, so far as I understand it, is due to writers using the eyes to express the, er, gamut of emotions, without the rest of their face and body coming into play: that the eyes, all by themselves, show everything. On that level, I'm sort of with her, because they don't, not alone. She hates phrases like "I could see the love in his/her eyes." No, you could not, writer person. You could see the corneas in his/her eyes.

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Eeeeee! Someone just got back from the Romantic Times convention and reports the following from the editor panels:

Other houses are looking for non-traditional settings and eras, like the Napoleonic Wars (but NOT as a traditional regency -- set it in France, say, and have the hero go to war).

Fuck yeah! t pumps fist

I emailed to ask which "other houses" those were. Need to know where to send this baby first once it's done.

Must write faster......

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"I could see the love in his/her eyes."

But you can see sadness, right? Remnants of exhaustion, evasiveness, and indications of sexual readiness (isn't that evocative phrasing) can all be indicated right there from the eyeball on out, without facial muscles being required (although they certainly can contribute).

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