Alison McMahan is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and author. Her most recent film is Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010) narrated by Sam Waterston. She is currently in post-production on the feature documentary The Eight Faces of Jane (2019). She is the author the of The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Bloomsbury 2005); the award-winning book Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Bloomsbury 2002), translated into Spanish by Plots Ediciones, adapted as a play by La Recua Teatro in Toledo, Spain (2012) and adapted into the documentary, Be Natural, by Pamela Green (2018). Her short mystery "The New Score" appeared in the Fish Out of Water Anthology (Wildside Press), and "The Drive By" in the Busted anthology (LevelBest Books), both April  2017, both nominated for Derringer Awards. “Kamikaze Iguanas” appears in the MWA anthology for middle grade readers entitled  Scream and Scream Again, edited by R.L. Stine, (HarperCollins, 2018). "King Hanuman" appeared in the SinCLA Anthology Fatally Haunted. "Harlem in Havana" appeared in The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction inspire by the Music of Joni Mitchell, (Untreed Reads, 2020) and "Volcano" appeared in The Great Filling Station Holdup, Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Jimmy Buffett (Down & Out Books, 2021).

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A Love Story in Tarraco, Part II

I started my search for more information about the man who dedicated a statue to his wife in Tarraco around the year 214, by focusing on his job title: Sevir Augustal. The Seviratus Augustalis was an urban institution of semi-official nature which was mainly held by wealthy freedmen in the first to the third century. Their functions were a cross between magistrate and priest for the cult of the Roman Emperor. There is not much documentation on what the Sevirs actually did.

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I recently discovered a new magazine where I can read Thriller short stories! It's called ThrillRide magazine. 

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Traveling to challenging locales: the Caribbean Islands, Angola, the hell of commuting in Atlanta, Oxford, Africa, N'Orleans, Hollywood, and the streets of Seattle like you've never seen them?

Dwelling in strange times: Ancient China, the birth of Christianity, decaying Babylon, the Wild West (but not in the West), WWII, last week, and the day after tomorrow?