What should we call you? People have known be by Stage for a long time, but you can call me Emily, if you prefer that.

Give us a fun fact: I’m an English-Professor-in-training! (read: I’m going to college with plans to get my doctorate after completing my BA.)

Penname (on FFN): Stage

Favorite newsie: Specs.  Always Specs.

Favorite line in the movie: Oh wow.  Tough one!  “Baby born with three heads…must be from Brooklyn.”  And I think Specs’ line (er, all four of them) are adorable.

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Favorite (published) author(s): Kevin Brockmeier, Jasper Fforde, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Dorothy Parker, Roald Dahl, and many more.

Favorite (published) book(s): The Brief History of the Dead, Time Traveler’s Wife (oh yes, Kez.  You made my night!) , The Eyre Affair, Inner Revolution (a book I read for Buddhism and ended up LOVING), The Great Gatsby, the Tale of the Rose, Inès of my Soul, Deadeye Dick, Le Petit Prince, Ya-Ya Sisterhood, A Clockwork Orange, the short stories of Roald Dahl as well as his childrens books, the list goes on and on…

Favorite quote: many, but these are three of my favorites:

"All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things ,and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live."
[Joseph Epstein]

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
[James D. Nicoll]

AND...

"“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, of whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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Favorite (fanfiction) author(s): studentnumber24601, Mondie, TSB, SakiSaki, Sita, Sinhe, Dakota Jones, Ann Valentine, the various amazing teams (like Underwhelmed, flashing lights, sloan, etc.), and ON…

Favorite (fanfiction) story(ies): “Stray” by studentnumber24601, “Foundations” by Sinhe, “But I’m a Prep!” by Sita, “Smoke on the Horizon” by Carmen Maria, “Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary” by Underwhelmed, “Desert Wind” (okay, it’s a GW fic, but hey!  It’s so good, I still read it!) by Rebecca the Great, etc. etc.!

Favorite genre to read? To write? To read? Nearly everything if it’s written well.  To write…ooh, I’m all about either a) wacky humor which usually involves literary refs like WHOA, or b) dark/angsty romance. 

Recommend us one of your stories... (link, if you can!) Hmm.  Uh. It's been a long time since I've written anything long...soooo, here's the most recent:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3351889/1/