Fractured Fragment Friday: “The Right Idea” (and a coupon!)

Detective Jimmy Delaney first sleuthed onto the page in “In a Flash.” He surprised me again a year later by bringing me “Mixed Signals”, but it would be a lie to claim that I thought he was done with me after that. So another year passes, and he comes to me with a story about … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Mixed Signals” (and a coupon!)

So – I wrote “In a Flash”, had some fun with it, but I thought Detective Jimmy Delaney would just be a one-time thing. But something in Jimmy called to me (maybe it’s the midlife thing, who knows?), and when I was thinking about the possibilities of jacking with a variety of devices in our … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “In a Flash” (and a coupon!)

I will now turn Fractured Fridays toward one of my two series – Detective Jimmy Delaney. I didn’t intend to write a detective story, let alone a series. Sure, I like to have a little mystery, misdirection and reveal in my fiction, but I write speculative fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, and light horror), not police and … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “The Voices” (and a coupon!)

After all the references I make to voices in my head, do you really wonder where this week’s featured story “The Voices” came from? Here’s the blurb: Billy Thompson knows the voices are real, even if they are just in his head. Or are they coming from somewhere else? And here’s this week’s excerpt: Billy … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “There’s No Present Like the Time” (and a coupon!)

My Significant One, was joking one day that I should give her a gift, and I was letting her know that I was already giving her my time, and made a play on words with “There’s No Present Like the Time”, which seemed like a good title for a story, which grew from there. It … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Interview with the Blue Neon God” (and a coupon!)

There’s a church I pass by sometimes (I am not a member), and at night there is always a bright blue light coming from the lobby that gives it an otherworldly appearance (or maybe just a New Worldly one.) I wondered if this was an intentional effect, and “Interview with the Blue Neon God” grew … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Sleep with the Snowmen” (and a coupon!)

Not all of us are angels, and there are reasons that Santa has a NAUGHTY list and a NICE one. Would Santa really just drop a couple of lumps of coal in a misbehaving boy’s stocking, or would he do something a little more meaningful – perhaps send him to “Sleep with the Snowmen”? Here’s … Continue reading →