R-SPEC is a group of writers, readers and thinkers in the Rochester NY area, that exists to celebrate and create speculative literature. We hold public meetings once a month to discuss new ideas and critically examine the literature we care about. You can help by joining us at a meeting, or becoming a member.

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January 2012: Read Your Beginnings

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This Tuesday, January 3, we're going to once again open the floor for people to read from their own work. Come prepared to read aloud the first 2 pages or about 500 words of something you're working on, and then receive brief, constructive feedback. Come at 7pm to sign up — we'll get through at least the first 7 people. Reading will start promptly at 7:30.

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ruhan.z...@gmail.com (Ruhan Zhao)
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I just registered my son and myself to 2012 Worldcon in Chicago
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When is the meeting this week?
piman...@gmail.com (Sally Caves)
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R-Spec is meeting Tuesday the first or Wednesday 2nd? I can't remember if
you moved it to Wednesday. I am ostensibly talking....
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Re: When is the meeting this week?
ericsco...@gmail.com (Eric Scoles)
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Tuesday -- tomorrow. We never move it because right now we can only get the
room on the first Tuesday.
Everything good? I'll...
Re: When is the meeting this week?
piman...@gmail.com (Sally Caves)
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Thanks, be there 7... ;)
Next Month: Thieves' Night, with "In the Winter Market"
ericsco...@gmail.com (Eric Scoles)
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Next month's R-SPEC meeting will be a "thieves' night" (a.k.a., "what can
we steal from these great stories?")....
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I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.
Dave Henn
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Re: Next Month: Thieves' Night, with "In the Winter Market"
craigdelan...@gmail.com (delancey)
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"The Winter Market" is short, friends, and so a quick read -- five
minutes and you're done.

If anyone knows of a...
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