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Strong language and adult situations, for those of you who find such thing appealing.  I was thinking…I particularly like those stylized black and white covers.  Here’s a version that fits my short story template. A writer torn between two genres, two worlds…and Horror always cheats. If only the best writer of his generation, Richard O’Shea, […]

Last weekend was the Pikes Peak Urban Gardens’ garlic festival.  It wasn’t big, and there wasn’t as much garlic as you might have expected.  I mean, a garlic festival, you expect things to reek of garlic.  You expect a six-foot dancing garlic bulb and a raw garlic eating contest.  Roast meat slathered in garlic–perhaps even

This one is late this week because…erm…I found more typos than I could live with.  So–this will be up until next Wednesday, if you please. Also!  A preview of the forthcoming “King of Cats” follows the story.  Sooo happy with that one. What if cats were really there to guard your dreams? Lost in the

When you are reading or writing a story, what comes before the story? Well, if you’re a plotter, you might answer “an outline,” which is a rather literal interpretation of that question.  Or “character development” or “theme” or what have you.  But no, that’s not where I’m headed. When you are reading or writing a

I’ve been studying books this summer.  Books, short stories, even movies.  Let me tell you, the more I work on this the more I think that it’s the way to go.   So stop reading this stupid blog and go study a book! How should I study it, you ask, because you’re smart and you

Mr. Hightower snorted.  “At any rate, it’s only you, dear Rachael, that we need, not these others. They can go.” Returning home again after the terrible events at Xanadu House, Rachael Baptiste has learned not to trust humans…because they might be part of the Lighthouse Parents, a hostile group out to arrest and destroy the

I am so running behind this week, so I’m ripping off my newsletter article for my own blog.  I have copyright.  Stop looking at me…if you’d sign up for the newsletter, I’d feel so embarrassed about putting the same stuff in two different places that I’d never do it again.  Really. Okay, not really. —

When everyone else looks at “The Mirror of the World Without You,” they see art–art that removes them from reality.  When Thomas looks at it, he sees technology…and danger to the artist behind it.  He offers Maxine a sweet deal to come and work for his VR company, but she refuses–she’d been used before.  But

…or why we quote anything, really. Dave Hill has this site, Wish I’d Said That (WIST), in which he collects quotes, so I should be really consulting him on this.  Dave, why do you quote things?  How do you choose the things you quote? But I have this feeling that he’d say something direct and

Didi can find anything she wants…except friendship.  Wherever she goes, strangers tell her how to locate anything, from the perfect pair of jeans to carrying out the perfect crime.  But love?  Friendship?  Her power can’t seem to handle things that most people find easy. When her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend figures out Didi’s power, Didi gets