Poker Face
It’s Turkey Week, nobody’s happy about the election of Remington Quill for president, my position is up for a vote, and today we’re...
It’s Turkey Week, nobody’s happy about the election of Remington Quill for president, my position is up for a vote, and today we’re...
I've been under the weather, so the wife fired up an old BBC series we hadn't seen that had portals and dinosaurs in it. I'm a sucker for...
I liked chess as a kid because it gave me so many choices. The kids at school hated playing chess with me because I took away all their...
Lucky sat patiently while kids droned through the Happy Birthday song. They were at the Norns verse. He didn’t know why they came. His...
I’ve only got one eye, but I saw too much. Rain dragged me out to the mall so she could get new clothes for work. She said I needed to...
It turns out that if you stand vigil in your wife’s hospital room for three days, you get a dream sequence. I can’t feel my feet anymore,...
I’d never been to a wedding, so I wasn’t sure if a goat attack was part of the ceremony. Back when Rain and I married, we drove to a...
In honor of the Halloween season, I participated in #TrickOrTweet2021. The rules were simple, write a scary story including the hashtag...
The Part Where Sulking Happens Captain Raptor glared at the mirror, his baleful eye unblinking in the dim light of his cabin. His head...
Never split up the party, unless everybody wants to see different things at the Ren Fair. Like last year, the wizards gathered at my...
Warning: Swearing, Violence, Fan-fiction The clues that Moreau Cay was a murder island were there from the day I woke up inside the...
The quest started off with my wife’s floating head. Her jet black hair hung loose about her shoulders instead of in her traditional braid....
When the guy with one eye hands you a ladle filled with a questionable liquid that’d been sitting in a kettle with a giant head floating...
I remember being pretty. Before the glowing rain. And the hiding. And the sickness. Losing my hair. My pretty, pretty hair. I would be...
Captain Raptor woke with a start. There was sand up his nostrils and he’d had a bad dream about losing his ship and crew. And hat. He...
I stand at the trail head, looking out from the forest edge across the fence gate and the field beyond. Vauthier's place I imagine. Funny...
I should have seen it coming when Yasunori said, “I thought there would be turkey.” The thin whispery voice from the translator carried...
Another month’s distance from the original idea, and I’ve added a chunk of story complication and action. Who Wants to be a Technomage?...
A month ago, I shared a first draft short story. A prequel to how Alex Rune assembled a group of technomages. In real life, around 2003...
I find it takes more work and revision writing fiction than non-fiction. Along with fixing mistakes, details and how I present things...