Posts under ‘Fiction’

What’s more in tune with the Christmas holiday than science fiction/fantasy? Flying reindeer, time travel, mysterious strangers hidden at the north pole? Lightspeed Magazine is having a big bundle sale, with very good deals on back issues, and on the e-books they put out. Lots of good short fiction and anthologies. If you’re interested in [...]

A very full October has concluded. I still haven’t written much about Viable Paradise, but I will. I’ve been gone every weekend in October, and weekends are when I usually get blogging done. Also fiction writing and many other useful things. October was very good in many ways, but I’m glad it’s over. November won’t [...]

Not really. But zombies and science. My office-neighbor Tamie got me something to celebrate the release of Rigor Amortis. Isn’t that great? The poor stuffed zombie is being made into stew – she filled the rest of the mug with candy corn and pumpkins. It’s a zombie cannibal’s dream come true! Incidentally, my sister-in-law made [...]

Let me show you something. Can’t read that? How about this? That would be a 77. No, really. It would. Right there, just below my name. I’m having trouble believing it myself. And here’s the photo version. We’re in good company. This anthology started as a twitter joke, and was picked up by a small [...]

Braaaaaiiiinnnsss!!! No, really I mean Booooookkkkksssss!!! I’m very pleased to say that I received my contributor copies of Rigor Amortis earlier this week, and it is fabulous! It is now available on Amazon. If you’re thinking of buying one from Amazon today would be an excellent day to do so. There will be an online [...]

It’s Monday. What other reason do I need for posting some lunchtime entertainment. This first video is guaranteed to make you happy for at least 3 minutes and 36 seconds. Unless you don’t like dogs, I suppose. But possibly even then! (OK-GO has been featured here before. If you need more cheering, you should go [...]

Slow morning, wrote less than a thousand words. But after an afternoon away from the house I sat down for a marathon three-hour session and wrote well over three thousand words, bringing me to 4100 for the day, or 7000 so far. Just 3000 more tomorrow and I will meet my goal! If I’m going [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]