Tag: fiction
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Sarah In The Morning
It was a cold, October morning at the Super 8 just off exit 337 and things were about to go, well, the way things tend to go. The detritus of a night gone wonderfully wrong lay about us: A crumpled bag of NASCAR-themed barb-e-cue Fritos, a spent bottle of Yukon Jack, a crumpled patriot-blue camisole…
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Explosive Bras Signal Love Connection
Better be careful…you could put an eye out with that thing! http://www.techtimes.com/articles/2979/20140127/think-japanese-bra-that-unhooks-when-woman-finds-true-love.htm
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Keeping With the Speculative Fiction Sub-Theme…
http://www.amazon.com/COVER-RUTHVEN-ROCKET-MUSHROOM-ART/dp/B00GV4QYSG/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3
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Excerpt: Novel in Progress
Someone asked me about the novel in progress…here’s some: It took both of them to drag me up from the hole, and from their grunts and curses it wasn’t easy for them. I had stopped struggling weeks before, and was paid for it with harder currency than when I’d fought back, but there wasn’t a…
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Novella Excerpt: Sharp Del
“Come on out of there, you motherless—.” Sharp Del’s voice died beneath a deeper, more malevolent rumble. “My mother,” the hulking Brin stepped out from the shadows behind him, “was very young.” Sharp Del whirled around with startled fury, swinging the heavy ball gun a bit further from his body than he ought to…
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Fiction Excerpt (Rough Draft in Progress: Olya’s Warhol Night
Try to ignore the issues with verb tense–these reflect unresolved narrative decisons in the longer form version and are not meant to imply that Olya exists on three different but simultaneous temporal planes, although now that I think on it…. Wake up at noon, legs trembling, back muscles slip-knotted, drawing tighter with every slight movement,…
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U.F.O.–My Gateway Science Fiction Drug
I can remember playing Star Trek when I was awfully small, maybe 6 or 7, with my friend Dan, who was Spock to my Kirk. Every once in a while, this weird kid named Jimmy McKelvy visited his grandparents on the next block over and he would play Bones–he had this awesome Phaser toy that…
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The Big Truck (excerpt)
The Big Truck (excerpt from a short story, circa 1990) A door slams and a key twists in the ignition of a big, new capable American machine. None of that third world bullshit, we’re talking Eight bedroom-sized cylinders displacing more than six liters in a gurgling rumble of power shouting of fundamental inconsistencies, hell, it’s…
Old Road Apples 