Bah. Really didn't feel like writing anything so I just wrote this bit of frippery. "We have come," the alien said to Larry King, "to share with you humans the joy that is karawbonka." It opened one of its mouths wide, revealing an array of writhing pale-blue tentacles in what passed among its people as a friendly grin. "I'm sorry;... read more »
I received an e-mail from the Writers of the Future contest, telling me that... Drumroll, please. Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum! ...telling me that they had received my entry for the next quarter of the contest. Still no word on whether I'm a winner for the previous quarter.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! That was because I still haven't heard from the Phobos contest whether my story wins or loses. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! And that was because I still haven't heard from Writers of the Future. I am being eaten alive by suspense. Although I guess it's not really the suspense about whether I'll win or lose that is so bad, it's not knowing... read more »
Don't really know where this is going, so it's unlikely to become a short story any time soon, but it deals with an idea I had several years ago. You are a time traveler. You float down the river of time so smoothly you barely notice you are moving at all. You think of the passing of hours and days... read more »
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And so I'm seeing some weird things. Like the three-foot cockroach that keeps barking at me. No, it's not THAT kind of medication. I'm having an allergy test on Thursday morning, and so I'm not allowed to take any anti-histamine drugs during the four days before that. Which means I didn't take any yesterday, and haven't taken any today. And... read more »
The Cougar football team did not lose this weekend.
I'm sure you're familiar with the Goodyear Blimp, which is seen over major sporting events. It has an array of high-intensity light-emitting diodes that allow it to display words and shapes on the side. (See here for FAQ's about the Goodyear Blimp. Actually, it's blimps, because there are more than one.) There are 7,560 LED lights on the blimp, with... read more »
The beginning of a new science fiction story, "Resonance." I think I'm going to try to finish this one before the deadline for All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories. Grant Sullivan watched his dream slipping away on CNN-Scientific. The screen showed an anchoring mechanism connected to the bottom of a fifty-thousand-kilometer black strip of nanofiber only two centimeters wide. It was... read more »
This assignment for my writing class was to show someone who seriously considers changing his religion. Kuhreel took the still-warm body of his son and placed it before the statue of Orn the Bear-God. Prostrating himself, he wailed his grief for several seconds. Then he rose to his feet, thumped his chest twice and began to shout his prayer. "Mighty... read more »
