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  • Empty Hours

    The hallway was damp, it had been mopped just minutes before I had appeared in the dark corridor. The building was closed for the night, quiet, only the humming of ...

    3 min read
  • Sword and Claw - Ch 1 the dead dragon

    The rain drummed on the enormous skeletal hulk, creating short-lived puddles in the indentations of the horned skull and sending rivulets cascading down the porous ribs. Darus stood inside the ...

    4 min read
  • This professor Hosselhoff has been taken down too

    Time for him to earn a few bucks in the magazine continuum

    1 min read
  • Professor Hosselhoff has been taken down

    Yes, 'tis flash-fiction to be sent to some flash-zine, I figure

    1 min read
  • Crisis in Orbit

    I've taken this down, as I'm starting to query agents and publishers with this attempt at a more ambitious project. Wish me luck.

    1 min read
  • By the River, In the Park

    I saw the wind stir up the clear surface,Expanding ripples flashing in the sent dry leaves to skate ahead with whispers,This squeezed my heart, I broke into a run.The grainy ...

    1 min read
  • creeping frost

    The feathers and whips of next winter shimmer,High over the rooftops, beyond the trees.A question is chorused in the chatter of insects:“But what about us, what about me?”The warm wind ...

    1 min read
  • Army Boots

    The gong of clashing wills prevails The trembling voices shake the walls The crooked table legs, the veil The ancient photograph, the loss Furrowed waves of trembling leaves Glossy ...

    1 min read


I tell the neophyte: Write a million words–the absolute best you can write, then throw it all away and bravely turn your back on what you have written. At that point, you’re ready to begin.
— David Eddings