Posts under ‘Fiction’

With cover art! And contributor bios! And a release date!
Rigor Amortis, coming soon via Absolute XPress.
So very exciting! Even if I’m actually a bit scared to read the whole thing…

I feel like I should explain a bit about the previous story and its “possible fanfic” attribution.
Yesterday was a beautiful late summer day, not as meltingly hot as it has been, and Nick and I had a picnic under along a trout stream in the next valley over. After dinner I watched the water ripples [...]

Afternoon light drew long shadows before me, cast flickering stream ripples onto the overhanging willow trunks. I sipped slowly from the cup cradled in my right hand, peat drifting across my tongue.
I probably should have been surprised when the horse rose from the water. Droplets sprayed over me from his black mane as he paced [...]

I haven’t been writing much for the blog because I’ve been writing for other projects:

A Crossed Genres Science in My Fiction article about satellite images I neglected to tell you about when it came out (I was out of town - sorry!).

My application for Viable Paradise. I made the wait list last year, and am [...]

Last century a cartoon appeared on lab doors: “Save the world. Teach your dog to photosynthesize.” It wasn’t a joke now. No dogs though, because fur interfered with solar absorption. Alexander popped a marshmallow into his mouth, his sweet tooth not satisfied by the sugars he made himself. Scientists had experimented on themselves for centuries, [...]

He stopped her hand as she reached for the bedside lamp, fingers biting into her wrist. “Leave it on.” She shrugged, though she preferred cloaking darkness. The relief in his eyes morphed into inky hunger. She gathered her long hennaed hair off her neck and turned her head away. His fingers smoothed the last tendrils [...]

Two billion eyes blinked for the first time. Two billion feet stepped out from under the bed, from inside the closet, from places lost and forgotten. A billion hands groped for a weapon. Sharp was most pleasing, but anything would do. Not all could join their sisters — so many were headless, legless, mutilated, dismembered [...]

Moonlight flooded the sky, only the brightest stars outshining it. The icy January wind bit deep into her bones. Once she’d been oblivious to temperature, even without her fur coat, but the past few winters had been hard. There were other compensations: her children, grandchildren, even the third and fourth generations. With age the pull [...]

My attention has been pulled in a thousand different directions lately, and writing has suffered the most. Not much blogging, very little fiction. Much pondering of fiction though. I seem to have developed some sort of process for long pieces of fiction.

Come up with an idea: a setting, a scene, a person, a phrase.
Write [...]

Mr. Alexander looked up at the office building. Surely that was new? He glanced at Ms. Sharp, walking beside him. Ms. Sharp was unperturbed. Should he ask her about the large gray metal box, with the three turrets and smokestack? He was certain that it hadn’t been there earlier this week. It looked like the [...]