I wrote too many stories with punning titles in the ’80s. It’s a disease from which I think I’ve since recovered. (At least I hope I have. You be the judge.)<\/p>\n
But back then, I would generate ideas by flipping through a dictionary and waiting for random puns to strike me. That’s how “Stirred But Not Slakened,” which was published in 1982 in the ninth issue of Infinity Cubed<\/em>, came to be.<\/p>\n I can’t remember which word first leapt out at me, “stirred” or “slakened,” but one of them brought to mind the old James Bond phrase. And from that pun of a title came an idea for a vampire who rose from the dead but whose hunger could not be satiated. The story opens with the question, “Have you ever seen a fat vampire?” and proceeds to show a bloodsucker with an eating disorder. It was one of the many stories I wrote in the ’80s that was merely a House of Mystery<\/em> or House of Secrets<\/em><\/a> story told without pictures.<\/p>\n That’s yet another disease from which I’ve since recovered. (Again … I hope<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote too many stories with punning titles in the ’80s. It’s a disease from which I think I’ve since recovered. (At least I hope I have. You be the judge.) But back then, I would generate ideas by flipping through a dictionary and waiting for random puns to strike me. That’s how “Stirred But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377,"parent":13,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-376","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}