Lessons Do Your Research 7 Feb 202214 Feb 2022 A New Experience) Last week I broke ground with the first chapter of my new story. I've previously discussed the intersection of fiction and real-world references, and how I've always…
Lessons I’m Just as Surprised as You 3 Jan 202226 Jan 2022 An Unexpected Philosophy) In the most recent chapter of The Long Walk to Alquoran, I had a moment where I explained the protagonist's ability to stick to a path for…
Lessons The True Character Revealed 1 Nov 20213 Nov 2021 Dodging the Truth) At the start of the 1999 film The Matrix, Neo already knows that the world is hiding something from him. Somehow the life that surrounds him seems…
Short Stories Covalent: Part One 5 May 202130 Dec 2021 Not much. Not much at all. Just a little bit of gray tinged with light blues and yellows at the periphery. A small sense of swirling motions, too, like trace…
Lessons Down the Rabbit Hole 24 Feb 202027 Nov 2021 Wandering Thoughts) The story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland opens with a girl who is bored. Thus it is an easy thing for her fancy to be captured when a white…
Short Stories Instructions Not Included: Part Five 22 Aug 201918 Nov 2021 The trucks were upon them now. The winged discs stopped shooting from the back of the first, the engines sputtered out, and the doors opened. Out stepped eight men, all…
Short Stories Instructions Not Included: Part Four 15 Aug 201918 Nov 2021 Curtis listened well, only ever asking the occasional clarifying question and otherwise taking the information in. At times he raised his eyebrows, not so much in skepticism, only surprise. He…
Short Stories Instructions Not Included: Part Three 8 Aug 201918 Nov 2021 The next morning Gavin's alarm had barely sounded a single note before he was on his feet and gathering up the tubes from his desk. "What are you up so…
Short Stories Instructions Not Included: Part Two 1 Aug 201918 Nov 2021 Gavin had a hard time paying attention in school the next day. He had wanted to check his fly trap first thing in the morning, but knew it would have…
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