Genre: Open Location: Abandoned Factory Object: Stick of Butter Synopsis: A journalist makes the ultimate sacrifice to get her story as a case of late 21st Century identify theft evolves into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Cascade “Where am I?” Cascade whispered while twisting in his chair to test equally restrained legs and […]
It should be no surprise to anyone that the print media is going through some issues. They have no money. It’s not really their fault, either. The trend of national and international companies buying local papers and expecting a big profit from them is fairly recent. Before that, papers tended to operate as loss leaders […]
So, Monday I leave Texas for Oregon, which in today’s mad, mad world somehow manages to be on my way to England. Before that I wanted to share the 2nd flash story of the competition. Title: A Place to Keep Them Genre: Ghost Story Object: Horseshoe Place: Circus SYNOPSIS: A young man on a first date becomes […]
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“You know, I really want to write something, like, deep and meaningful about MMOs or video games or something.” “Yeah? That’s cool. You wanna, like, start looking at stuff to see what you should write about?” “Nah, that’s a lot of work. I think I’ll write about, um, you know, like, girls. And video games. […]
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So I entered the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction contest for the second year. Flash fiction is a short story that uses 1,000 or fewer words. I made the finals last year, but failed to place. More importantly, it was a fun way to generate some solid story starts in a variety of genres. Here is […]
Okay, as many who read this blog know by now, I’m relocating my family to Leeds in August. We’re taking about six suitcases with us to the United Kingdom, which leaves 95% of our belongings in storage. I can’t stand my board games sitting in storage for a year or more, pieces silent and dice […]
I’m not a big baseball fan, but after last weekend’s once-in-a-lifetime NCAA Austin Regional, I had to buy tickets to the Super Regional. For those who don’t know, last Saturday the University of Texas and Boston College played the longest baseball game in NCAA history, 25-innings and over seven hours. Austin Woods provided the real […]
You know like, “every rose has its thorns†or “man, I didn’t age well but I still look better than Vince Neil.†Kinda like Terminator Salvation feels a lot like the disappointment from Revenge of the Sith and a lot less like Alien Versus Predator. Hey, I’m trying to find somewhere nice to start because […]
As a kid, my favorite toy in the world was Legos, or more properly LEGO. From my very first space set I got for Christmas in 1980 (the Beta 1 Command Base) I was totally hooked, and LEGO dominated my wish lists for birthday and Christmas for years to follow. In college, my love for […]
I work hard to prove to people that geeks are just folks with different ideas of fun. I make sure to temper any geekery with the awareness that there are non-geeks around, and include them in conversations. I try not to use words with more than 3 syllables in every day conversation (unless I’m trying […]
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