Evan Schaeffer

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Fiction, Satire and Commentary

Fiction

"Partnership: A Lawyer Story," Legal Underground, 2/05;

"Artwork," Artful Dodge, Number 38/39, 2001.

Very Short Fiction

"Crazy," Fiction at Work, 1/10;

"113 (Mom and Dad)," Nanoism, 1/18/10;

"The Dying Wife," 50 to 1, 11/15/09.

Satire and Humor

"How to Write Damn Good Flash Fiction," Right Hand Pointing (forthcoming, 4/15);

"The Sixteen Types of Lawyers and Other Observations from a Lawyer with a Weblog," from The Legal Underground;

"The Trial Lawyer's Prayer," Bench & Bar of Minnesota, Volume 55, Issue 5;

"Legal Red Tape Dampening Santa's Holiday Spirit," Allentown Morning Call, December 22, 1996;

"Santa's Legal Problems Assure Attorneys a Merry Christmas," The Cincinnati Post, December 12, 1995;

"T'was the Night Before Christmas and... Uh-Oh, Here Come Some Litigious Lawyers," Chicago Tribune, December 11, 1995;

"Cyberrunning," Runner's World, November, 1995.

Commentary

"Will Google Transform Medicine? Inevitable Advertising, Privacy Issues Make Google Health a Bad Prescription," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3/19/08;

"Workplace Privacy Is An Issue For All of Us," Alton Telegraph, April 15, 2002;

"A Terrorism Reading List," Alton Telegraph, October 14, 2001;

"Tired of Gratuitous Profanity?  You Don't Have to Put Up with It at the Movies," Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 19, 1998;

"The Virtues of Eccentricity," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 27, 1997;

"Weather Forecasting is Really Chaos," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 5, 1996;

"Meteorologists' Dirty Little Secret About the Weather," Indianapolis Star, June 23, 1996;

"This Father's Day, Sibling Conflicts Teach Life Lessons," St. Louis Suburban Journal, June 19, 1996;

"Hooplah and Hype: The Selling of the Beatles," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 20, 1995;

"A Box of Candy: You Can Get Anything You Want on the Internet, But Maybe You Shouldn't," Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 19, 1995;

"Surfing the Net: A Trivial Pursuit," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 11, 1995;

"A Midsummer Night's Sex Tragedy," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 28, 1992.

Other Articles

"Getting the Most Out of Student Callers," Fund Raising Management, July, 1990.