More mid-summer/winter fiction! Esquire magazine mailed a napkin to 250 writers and asked them to write a short story on it. They got nearly a hundred back, and the results are available online.

She walks in to the bar, and instantly my eye is drawn to her. The red overcoat certainly grabs attention, as many heads in the room flick momentarily towards the door. I let my gaze linger, drinking in her figure and her grace. Ordering, she looks around the room while waiting for her drink, casually searching the room. Our eyes lock across the room, and I smile. She smiles back, dips her eyes for a moment, but then looks back up, eyes connected once again. Damn, that’s a yes if there ever was one. I let my eyes wander up and down a little. ...

I may have linked to this before, but what the hell: A Shade Less Perfect by Max Barry, author extraordinaire.

Sir Edmund Hillary, 1919 - 2008.

(links to trailers/more info where available/relevant) 21 (Heist!) Be Kind Rewind (Mos Def, Jack Black, and some good ol’ fun) Cloverfield (As if not) The Dark Knight (Let’s see if they can follow up Batman Begins) Get Smart (Steve Carrel as Maxwell Smart, Anne Hathaway as 99… could work, could work.) Harold & Kumar 2: Escape From Guantanamo (Hey, it was worth a laugh the first time) Speed Racer (Because… it’s different. I’m no fan of the cartoon, though) Trailer Trash (a movie… composed entirely of trailers! The mind boggles. What kind of trailer will this have?!) The Forbidden Kingdom (Jackie Chan and Jet Li! can’t go wrong, can it?) Jumper (I have a total crush on Rachel Bilson, and I don’t care if she’s only got a minor role) Semi Pro (Will Farrell takes on Basketball) Wanted (Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, James McAvoy, guns and assassins) The Bank Job (nominally; Jason Streatham Statham, heist movie set in London) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (INDY!!!!!) Untitled James Bond 22 (How can you miss Bond?) The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (dubious about lack of Rachel Weisz)