“Business is Business” was an attempt to tell Rumplestiltskin from a perspective that made the fairy tale a fairer tale. I always felt the miller’s daughter in the original tale was a bit too innocent to be believable. Her father lied, the King was greedy, she makes a deal with the gold-spinner, gets what she … Continue reading
“A Dish Best Served” started simply with a desire to use an multi-course meal as the vehicle for a story. I started writing with the critic vs. chef theme, and the rest of the story came out of the pen on its own (or with the help of my favorite Poe story, “A Cask of … Continue reading
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
Last week’s goals: Made my three blog postings and my quota for comments on the blogs of others. I currently have four stories eligible for publication in traditional markets: “Rendering Memories” is a 3,000-word contest entry which is still waiting to win or lose “Schizo the Magnificent” is flash fiction, and waiting for a suitable … Continue reading
Weekly Goals: I made my three blog posts, and continued commenting on the blogs of others. Since deciding that my next release will be November 8th, I’ve done nothing to prepare for it – I need to start soon (trying to decide if this Herc Tom collection will be two stories (a total of 31,000 … Continue reading
“Mating Rituals” was another one of those where I’d like to be able to say I don’t know where it came from (but I heard Manti beginning her monologue inside my head, so I guess that’s where it actually came from. There are SO MANY voices running around in there…) This is also one of … Continue reading
I had a vision of a traditional UFO saucer crashed into a cavern. Who else would be there besides park rangers? Bats of course, and a statement on some of the foolishness that goes into placing more importance on nature than human beings. There’s more than a couple of “Endangered” species in there. Here’s the … Continue reading
