The Dotted Logline

I’ve caught myself using the word “frack” quite a bit as of late, that being the expletive of choice in the new Battlestar Galactica TV series. Seeing as how I’m the type of person who still apologizes to the parental units for including profanity in my writing even though they really don’t care, I’m glad that science fiction and fantasy exist to introduce us to new, interesting, and non-offensive (in our reality) curses. Calvin from L’Engle’s Time Quartet understood this too: in A Wind In The Door, his favorite new curse was fewmets (dragon crap) Personally, I find fewmets to be a bit awkward to say, but to each their own.