I have to apologize for the lack of new content in the last week. Unfortunately, I also have to inform you that it will be followed by another week or so of no new content.
I’m heading off to Mexico in a couple of days, and my life has been surrounded by those pesky Things That [...]
Archive for January, 2008
An Apology
Posted in Non-fiction on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Thinking Box – 4 – A Noise in the Graveyard
Posted in The Thinking Box, tagged coffin, fiction, graveyard, horror on January 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A Noise in the Graveyard
Klaus collapsed to the ground, pressing his face to the still relatively fresh dirt of his wife’s grave. He was as close to her as he could be, like this. Tears streamed across the the bridge of his nose and onto the tiny blades of green grass, already sprouting, as he [...]
Nodwin and the Pixie’s Curse – 10 – Prison
Posted in Nodwin and the Pixie's Curse, tagged dirt, fiction, gem, hammock, prison, stone, underground on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prison
Nodwin opened his eyes, the grogginess of being knocked out slowly dropped away. He was in a windowless room. The walls and floor were made of dirt that had been hardened somehow. Maybe even by magic. It was smooth and he couldn’t even put a divot in it with his fingernail. The room was lit [...]
The Thinking Box – 3 – Come to the Castle
Posted in The Thinking Box, tagged castle, fiction, grave, horror, murder on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Come to the Castle
KLARA
Klaus glared at the new slip, fury consuming him. This was the most depraved display of poor taste he’d ever witnessed. Somebody was impersonating his dead wife – Oh God, Klara – mere days after her funeral. He wanted to tear the tubes from the wall, he wanted to find whoever was [...]
Nodwin and the Pixie’s Curse – 9 – The Garden’s State
Posted in Nodwin and the Pixie's Curse, tagged faerie, fairies, fairy, fantasy, fiction, flower, pim, pixies, stella on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Garden’s State
“Please slow down!” Stella’s skipping was tossing Nodwin about in her pocket.
“Sorry!” Stella called, and settled into a much more stable walk.
Nodwin was able to poke his head out of her pocket without fear of a sudden motion snapping his neck on its edge. What he saw amazed him. Huge trees sailing by [...]
The Engrossing Saga of Mark Putnam (can you believe it’s in the “non-fiction” category? I can’t!!!)
Posted in Non-fiction, tagged crazy guy, mark putnam, nanowrimo, novel, omg, omgwtf, plotastic, writing, wtf on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A colleague (by which I mean fellow relatively unpublished writer who’s decided to use the power of Web 2.0 to motivate his career) of mine, Mark Putnam, recently did something remarkable.
He started a blog called “Plotastic!” and got a huge pile of people to fill out a ballot. It was a big ballot, and it [...]
The Thinking Box – 2 – Klaus Drecker
Posted in The Thinking Box, tagged Clock, pneumatic tube, thinking box, tinkering on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Klaus Drecker
Klaus Drecker was in his workshop, tinkering with a broken clock. He was not a clockmaker, he was a teacher. But he had not taught his students in more than five days. Five days past, he had been a happy husband and teacher. Now Klara was gone and his grief left him too stiff, [...]
200 Hits!
Posted in Non-fiction on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some time between when I went to bed last night and when I woke up this morning the hit count on ARitU crested 200!
That’s a big deal for a rinky-dink fiction blog by someone who is considerably less than famous.
I have no way of telling how many people actually read the stories on a regular [...]
Nodwin and the Pixie’s Curse – 8 – The Smallest Giant
Posted in Nodwin and the Pixie's Curse, tagged faeries, fairy, forest, giant, girl, pim, polkadots, spear, trees on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Smallest Giant
All trace of anger fled Nodwin’s mind when in an instant (the instant in question was the instant that the giant person plucked the spear from its ankle and glared back in Nodwin’s direction, fury on its face). Nodwin froze. It seemed he had not yet been spotted. The unfortunate owner of the [...]
The Thinking Box – 1 – Humsbreth
Posted in The Thinking Box, tagged artificial intelligence, computer, gothic, mad science, mountain, steampunk, town on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Humsbreth
Near the edge of the In-Between, in the foothills of Cutter’s Crag, lay the idyllic small town of Humsbreth. It was a prosperous town, and every aspect of the place was precise and measured. If it were in our world, we might find that it seemed to belong in Switzerland – the watch-making part, not [...]
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