Open Submissions – Portals To Places you Don’t Want To Go

Everyone always talks about all the ones that take you good places like Narnia, Terabithia and even some place that serves cake I am told. But what about all those magic portals that take you places that you don’t want to go?

There is a Portal Under My Sink: And Oth

There is a Portal Under My Sink: And Other Stories of Places You Don't Want to Go. A new Anthology From @mplested and @jahite There is a Portal Under My Sink: And other Stories of Portals to Places You don't Want to Go. A new anthology Taking submissions http://portalundermysink.wordpress.com/

The Spray Cheese Legacy

The Spray Cheese Legacy A Short Story (and a prediction of the future for our children) Dedicated to my wife and Children "So what is bothering you?" His wife asked. "I don't know this whole big production for dinner just seems off some how." "Geeze, not that again. We have been married for three yearsContinue reading "The Spray Cheese Legacy"

12 Christmas Movie Spoilers

Everyone likes a good Christmas movie, but everyone loves to hate spoilers, so I thought I would put them together and we would come up with something that everyone could agree to disagree on.

Where our Food Comes From

WARNING - This post contains some graphic content about livestock, if you are squeamish about that sort of thing please consider skipping this post. You have been warned.

7 Things you didn’t know Part 7

A few years ago, I was working at a job that I didn't like. That is putting it mildly. I was leaving before 5 in the morning to be there by 7 (yes a two hour commute and most of that time was spent going less than 5 miles an hour.) I was usually the first person in the office and the last person to leave, getting home only barely in time to see my kids off to bed.

Writing Prompt Week 14

I like to think about Anakin Skywalker here, he was put in some pretty impossible situations, but what it he had made the "right choice," and fought against the power that was drawing him to the dark side.

7 Things you didn’t know Part 6

I will send a dozen emails and write a thousand IM messages if I can avoid using the phone, even if it takes much, much longer. I have a deep seeded fear of using the phone.

7 Things you didn’t know Part 5

I was not tagged in one of those, "Tell so many things about yourself that other people might not know" posts, so it is likely that no one really cares. It also means that because I didn't get tagged I won't actually do it on Facebook. But it looked kind of fun so I thoughtContinue reading "7 Things you didn’t know Part 5"

7 Things you didn’t know Part 4

Westward expansion, the "wild west" settlers and "Indians" never really held any interest for me. During this time period about the only thing that excited me was the building of the trans continental railroad, there are some pretty interesting things there.