Archive for the ‘Fiction’ Category
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
This month's Saturday Story is titled "Djinn". Our young protagonist meets a different kind of magical creature. He also gets a special peek into his mother's childhood adventures.
I like sharing this story. It brought out the kid in me, both in the subject matter and the presentation.
It's the result of ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Photo by RBerteig
Ode to a Cornish Hen
Stalking Iris, on my way to St. Ives
Alas, alack! Apparently I am smitten, -
Hiding plainly, in the road lie seven knives.
A trip, a fall, all parts of me are bitten.
Red blood runs free: each blade takes seven hacks.
The puncture wounds cause me to swoon ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Photo by ikon vodka
Shortly after the New Year, Pinhole, the man with the golden pen, Revived an Old Challenge: write something based on a required opening sentence.
He brilliantly rose to the challenge.
Then he threw down the gauntlet.
Being a bit short of baby gaunts, I gingerly picked it up, brushed it ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
This month's Saturday Story is titled "Secret Shocker".
Intruder Alert! Homeowner and burglar both get a nasty surprise in this futuristic monologue.
It originally appeared in a contest on Fanstory.com.
Rated V for Violence. If your stomach churns easily, skip this one.
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Photo by jurvetson
Specialists in sub-nuclear particle research have discovered a new particle of energy.
The particle, one millionth the size of an iota of information, has been dubbed the retentron.
It travels at one third the speed of light, which is twice as slow as attention, its antimatter counterpart.
Dr. Rip V. ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
This month's Saturday Story is titled "Descent, Interrupted".
Six people are trapped in an elevator that threatens to plunge to, well, the bottom.
This experiment in tight dialog didn't go off as well as I had hoped, as some of the characters are not quite believable. Still, it's a gripping story.
It originally ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Awesome Business Opportunity, a light-hearted jab at the MLM industry, was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the reviewers at FanStory.com.
It is a fictionalized account of a business opportunity meeting. It is in no way intended to impugn the integrity of the industry. (These alliterations pop up all over my ...
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