Mind Like a Hive – Part 1
My wife enjoyed What Lies Beyond Sight quite a bit. She is an enormous fan of anything dystopian, and for me to write something that smacked of her favorite genre was a treat. To be honest, I didn’t. I wasn’t…
The Sunday Teardown – The Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher – Part 1
Normally, I want this segment to be a weekly jump into the things that I am reading at this moment. I want them to be about how I enjoy a specific thing, or try to uncover some hidden gem that…
On the Raw: The Real Reason I Want to Write Short Stories…
I went to bed last night rather early. I had a headache, and I really wanted to get some extra rest to prep for this weekend. Not that there is any huge going on, but I need to take better…
What Lies Beyond Sight – Part 3
There’s a lot of talk that the art world will experience a boon during the Trump era. That his policies, his disregard of ethics, and his complete and utter surrender to the will of the ‘alt-right’ will produce some of…
What Lies Beyond Sight – Part 2
This weekend involved an absolutely wonderful idea being born. It grew off nothing more than a dream, and with the help and advice from a serious group of book nerds, we managed to form it into an intriguing story. The…
What Lies Beyond Sight – Part 1
So this week has started off with a lot of hubbub about why I write, why I write a blog, and really why I do anything at all. Such introspection is neat, and I like it. It’s vital just for…
On the Uses of Blogs…
I’m not going to lie. When I started this thing back in July of 2016, I wanted to quit my day job. That’s right. Non-viral short story based blogging, from scratch, as a career. In like three months. Unrealistic? Oh…
Monday Musings: I am not good at anything, and in the long run that doesn’t matter.
My son was crying tonight. Not an unusual occurrence, he’s not quite two yet: crying is kind of his thing. I’ve had enough though. I went in, grabbed his binky, and shut the door. No more milk, no more binky,…