Posts under ‘Fiction’

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]