I finished “The Matter of the Dodo” earlier this morning. It ended up being about a soldier whose orders conflict with the mission of an
I got this in the mail yesterday: It’s the Summer 2024 Dragon Gems anthology! And here on page 291… My short story “Heavens Below Us”! You
But what I really meant to say in my last post was this: I really don’t have many regrets. And, as Benjamin Hoff said in The
[First off, an administrative note. Lately I have been getting LOTS of hits to my blog, usually very early in the morning or very late
Since I finished “Christmas in Telos” yesterday, I drew some new cards from the Story Engine today to generate a new prompt. And here it
I started my “2025 Commitment” just last Sunday, and today I completed the rough draft of my first short story for the year, “Christmas in
I decided I was going to start early on my 2025 Commitment project, so here is the first prompt from my first Story Engine draw:
A couple of edits to this post: In 2024, I also applied for the Older Writers Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation. I did not
One thing I really enjoy about the holidays is the music. When I was a kid, I would try to start playing holiday music days
You probably can’t tell, but the picture above is of a baby triceratops emerging from a clay egg. Pretty sure that’s not how they did