Written today, the 29th of February: She planted the seed and waited. After a while rain came down from the sky, pelting her skin, chilling her. She shivered but didn’t leave, not yet. The Sun came out, warming the soil, driving the cold from her bones. She waited. Clouds scudded by overhead, in a hurry for …
TV: Coming up next on NBC: Amnesia, the game show that tests the memory — of you! Me: Should I trust the writers of a program that couldn’t come up with a tagline that scans better, like, say, “the game show that tests your memory!”? That, by the way, is a rhetorical question.
IMG_3206 Discovered in * MAGNE’s Flickr photostream. She said, “Just a little more helium, if you please,” and then she slipped away into the sky. Two days later she touched down in Old Dan’s meadow, ankle-deep in wildflowers and foxtail. Something had turned her eyes from drab brown to silver, the colour of sun-kissed clouds, …
So I changed my little blog header the other day, to read “Specializing in treckle lansing disputes”. This is, if you don’t know, a nod to Vernor Vinge’s novel A Fire Upon the Deep, wherein a posting to the Galactic Net (also known as the Net of a Million Lies) from Arbitration Arts Corporation at …
So I’ve been having kind of mixed feelings about my online serial novel, Everything that never happened, which has been stalled since, oh, August or so. June, if I’m honest with myself. This week I decided to push it to the back burner, and work instead on Salyx, which is my 2006 Nano novel. I’ve …
This novel arrived in the mail about a day before I headed west, after I’d waited the better part of two weeks for it (and even longer, if you factor in the fact that I pre-ordered it, but that’s a whole ‘nother story, as they say). I started reading it on the train, and I finished …
From the front matter of Steven Brust’s Firefly fan-fic(ish) novel (found via Scalzi’s Whatever): For people who care about such things, the book was written in emacs on a box running Mandrake Linux, then I used OpenOffice to format it for printing. The final layout for online publication was created with Microsoft Word and Adobe …
One of my recent ficlets, one that I’m particularly proud of: The Trick “You want to see a trick?” Her eyes narrowed. “What kind?” “Like nothing you’ve ever seen,” he said, and took a swig straight from the bottle. Red wine stained his teeth. “Promise.” “All right.” She leaned back in the chair as he stood up, crossed …