Novelist, Author of The Harvard Skull Fiasco and other stories, and founder of Wrongcards.com.

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Wrongcards and the Mind Virus

I've been revisiting some of my older cards. Some of them are inexplicable.

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A Not So Cricketty Christmas

Some games of cricket can last for weeks. In fact, I think that's one of the reasons I moved to America.

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The Infernal Terracotta Pot

I slightly injured myself. Then, whilst forced to do nothing at all, I began to wonder about my own mental well-being.

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Strange Passage, Part Two

And then I was locked up in a holding cell, wondering what to do next.

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Strange Passage, Part One

I tell you, it really makes a man think.

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Don't Mention the War

I'll be very careful, don't worry.

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In Recollection of Past Mischief

Once upon a time, I thought I worked for the New England Journal of Medicine. Except in reality, I didn't. I was mistaken, and this error may have led to some fairly expensive renovations. Let me explain.

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Of Cake and Compliments

It's Christmas Eve, and I've been making cakes and receiving compliments.

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And The FBI Has Lost My Fingerprints

This sort of thing happens to me quite a lot.

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In the Garden of the Danger Noodles

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

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Adventures are Greatly Overrated

And also: the people who enthuse about them don't know what they're talking about.

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Back to the Countway

For possibly the final time, I visited the Countway Library of Medicine.

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The latest book

Meet Shea. He's difficult—he suffers from pathological problems with authority and an unrepentant truthfulness. When he's not fixing computers in the library at Harvard Medical School, he's tormenting middle managers, and feuding with his boss. But where in the Harvard employee manual does it say you have to behave perfectly at all times?

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