Light: Bright Like A Soul Burning!

The ocean moved toward the shore as I moved toward the ocean – the Atlantic, and a city older than it’s country, yet still too country in many ways. I found a residence in Charleston, South Carolina and began to seek a job. I was lucky in more ways than I had hoped to be . . . → Read More: Light: Bright Like A Soul Burning!

I’d like to try an experiment…

…and I need your help. I’ve mentioned before that I wanted to get back into writing more short stories as practice for eventually getting around to writing something approximating a novel—I even started a category on the blog to hold my attempts at fiction—but so far I’ve been hard pressed to come up with story . . . → Read More: I’d like to try an experiment…

I have an idea…

…for another bit of fiction of the short story variety that is inspired by the upcoming holidays. If I can massage it into something coherent I’ll post it up.

NaNoWriMo has begun.

This year’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is underway, but yours truly won’t be participating. I’ve made enough attempts at writing novels on my own to know that this challenge is still beyond me. Short stories I can do when the muse strikes me upside the head, but a full-length novel is still beyond my . . . → Read More: NaNoWriMo has begun.

Boo.

Susan sat bolt upright in her bed, her ears prickling against the muffled silence of the dark house. She thought she had heard… something. Her eyes darted about the room straining in the faint light from her LED alarm clock to make out shapes as her brain tried to identify what sound had jarred her . . . → Read More: Boo.