Originally post on May 15 2008 This prompt comes from Mode Room Press. See the link in the PROMPTS section to the side Describe Adam and Eve breaking up With a handful of poultry feathers Such love one has had at times like these A gypsy wagon comes traveling by While a virgin discovers loveContinue reading “GreatHites 1 – Adam and Eve”
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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?
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”
Reason Number 5 that I Love Speculative Fiction
As any great piece of speculative fiction should this one makes you think. While this piece is pretty straight forward at the outset, and might not even seem like Sci/Fi or even Fantasy, it is something much much more.
A Work in Progress
So back on topic. One of the reasons that I have not been posting a lot here lately is that I have been doing a lot of other writing. I might notice that my writing tacker has not updated in a while, and that is because I am afraid to go in there an put in that long string of zeros before I picked up my pen again. But I will hear shortly (Maybe.)
Why I keep Writing But I Won’t do NaNoWriMo
I am much more balanced with my writing and the rest of my life, and at this point I just don’t think that I can do NaNoWriMo this year. Maybe not ever again. But for all you NaNo’s out there, I wish you the best. I will cheer you on from the sidelines. And I will keep plugging away at my writing.
Our Brother Joe is Dead.
Most boys didn’t get to come back from the war walking on their own two feet. Some of them came back, but they were mostly wrecks. But, most of them came back in boxes if they came at all. But not Joe. Joe came back into town with a smile on his face. He had gotten a lift from the station and the driver had dropped him off right at the edge of town. When we first spotted him, he was adjusting his uniform getting ready to make his big entrance.
Writing Challenge For The Space Minded.
As Douglas Adams reminded us, “Space is big…” To travel across the distances needed to get anywhere meaningful will take us a long time. Even our nearest planet, with our current technology, is going to cost of several months time.
The Great Hites 