Reality Is Merely an Insufficiency of Vision
After a long hiatus from writing (which I mostly spent painting and doing photography) I sat down and completed a first draft for a new novel. It's a curious thing, thinking about how long it takes to write a book. The first question that must be answered, in that regard, is, "What do mean by... Continue Reading →
Below is the opening to my first science fiction novel, Hard As Roxx, which I completed and published 10 years ago. In earlier drafts, the novel opened with Roxx's musing about her situation, but I thought you needed to meet her first. So, in this brief excerpt, we find her in the Sahara Desert, leading... Continue Reading →
From my novelette, "Holy Mother of Selina Sky," published in the anthology Beyond the Farr Road. At the edge of the park, we encountered a small family who’d obviously been living there. The two children were neat and as clean as one might expect to be while sleeping on a park bench. The mother and... Continue Reading →
I stumbled across this video and wanted to share it. The YouTuber, Bookfox, lists nine categories of words to delete from your writing. These are proven ways to both strengthen your descriptions and word usage and to reduce word count. I have used most of these methods and recommend them. As examples, seek out your... Continue Reading →
https://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-Trace-Eddie-Daley-Mystery-ebook/dp/B077NR4HQ7 You can read a sample by clicking on the "Free Preview" link above, or do it the old fashioned way and just read Chapter One below. The Free Preview takes you most of the way through Chapter 2. I’d been driving all day, sucking in western Oklahoma road dust, and I wasn’t in the... Continue Reading →
In the human mythology, light is the source of life, of what we assume to be All There Is. There is more, but we are infinitesimal and cannot see it. What is measurable for us comes from the Light, from the stars that produce it. The elements we recognize as fundamental to nature arise in... Continue Reading →
I am to blame regarding most things.Your moves, your unhappiness, your failingsall rest upon my sagging shoulders.That I never bring you joy is a burdenI have carried too long. It is time to rest. There are no perfections in this life,nor have I ever desired one. Joyhas been my only goal, but it is one... Continue Reading →
Every so often, I redesign book covers just to keep them fresh (and because my visual art becomes stale to me after a while). These are the latest three.
As published in The Juice and Other Stories. Photo by Bakr Magrabi on Pexels.com The world was heading due south, and there wasn’t a thing else I could have done about it. I get that my place in history will be as a fool, a mass-murderer, and a psychopath. I’m leaving this tome because someone... Continue Reading →
16 July 2012. 8:06 a.m. My name is What’s-Her-Name. Obviously not, but that’s how I think of myself. The Others call me Karen; I suppose they need a label to attach to me. I suggested Tits McGhee, but nobody else thought that was funny. It seemed logical, once they let me out of bed and... Continue Reading →
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