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ShortFic: Courtney & The Gray Guides
Foreword: Homo sapiens created scientific materialism in order to weigh, measure, categorize objects meshed in time and space. The only problem: It became more than a tool, creeping into the realm of...
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Foreword: Coming up on Malys’ introduction now in my rewrite of Isabel: The Portals of Hellion. My mind immediately leapt to the song I wrote for her, which is a peek at her past before Isabel walks...
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Destined
Foreword: Needed a quick exercise in voice, a shot in the arm to get me through the last portion of my rebuild of Isabel: The Portals of Hellion. This is also a bit of a reminder about the...
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Using AI (Cantina) to Picture Behaviors
AI is either a boon or a plague depending on your rhetorical stance. However, remember, Salem judges once used the term “witch” in order to brand and reify human beings as…spell casters. If you are a...
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Shortfic: Jynz and Fincher
Foreword: Tolkien acknowledged some influence from E.A. Wyke-Smith’s 1927 children’s book The Marvelous Land of Snergs when he invented his halflings. Snergs liked cozy dwellings and were cheerful. In...
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Cold Qualia
There is something about howWinter snow counts on birch treesTo demonstrate poetic worth.As if in answer, a car door slams,Ignored by the trees and snow,And Vera’s black boots crunchedInto that white...
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The Northlake Orbs
Foreword: Orbs, orbs, orbs. We love them in folklore, we (maybe) love those Brown Mountain Orbs. Some dance, and eerily, some seem to have more sinister motives. I also love reading about the history...
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When shadows in the hallway called…
Foreword: It’s usually an image that comes to me that begins these things. I sit with it, ask it if there is more, and when it shows me more, I go with it. Also, on this post, it’s your job to see the...
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Quick Fic: Sanguine Days…
Bleak clouds drifted into the Empire State. September prequel. Prelude to autumn? 65 degrees today, not much moving. Leaves are still, as if expecting a song and dance to drift in soon. Barb and I are...
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Quick Fic: Nocturne
Foreword: Following is overgrowth, a type of introduction to a simple story I wrote recently. Just trying to package a preface tightly, color it with tone, and a bit of doom. I credit H.G. Wells for...
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Quick Fic: Scranton Scranny
There’s an odd fight going on down in Dickson City. Hell, that same war is fought all the way down U.S. 6. Nope, it doesn’t end at Walmart or GameStop. Mother Nature encroaches upon not only Scranton,...
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Quick Fic: House Ellington
Foreword: Quick Fic is my rewording of the “flash fiction” brand. This post will mark the first posting of Quick Fic. More will be on the way. My two rules: a. Use only three to four paragraphs, and...
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There was a day…
Foreword: The storm of sci-fi drama has passed on now, so back to posey. Why? I stumbled upon a photograph posted by one KaaCee, a photograph that hit me upside the head with nature’s understated...
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The Stars of Heaven (vi): Conclusion
Foreword: Here we are at the send of the second series. With this end, I am going back to Ravoria. I liked having fun with converting my usual story voice to fantasy sci/fi. I do think that in the...
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Greta’s Poem II
Foreword: You may or may not remember the first poem written about Greta, so I’m linking it in this space. Overall, she is Hali’s mother. Greta agreed to leave Earth to undergo the change to a...
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The Stars of Heaven (v)
You may have heard that after the First War, folks began moving into the NewTowns due to the free electricity, clean water, and free homes—slightly used ones of course. But that didn’t work for my...
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“The Stars of Heaven” (iv)
Foreword: I am borrowing from Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost to create the psychological territory of Lothar. I admit it. “Non serviam” is the theme of both Conrad’s Kurtz and now my own Lothar. Why...
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“The Stars of Heaven” (iii)
Foreword: There are probably many who think I write feminist stories. Not true. Dante included himself in his Divine Comedy without checking if people would be offended. Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet...
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“The Stars of Heaven” (ii)
Foreword: If you don’t know Lothar’s real name, take a look back in the first Hali series. This guy is my version of Mr. Kurtz from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. He’s so far away from HQ that he thinks...
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“The Stars of Heaven”
Foreword: You might remember Greta, mother of Hali, who was whisked out of Hali’s life by the Council of Humanity’s Ascension (CAA). Working with Virgil, self-enlightened military AI, Greta worked for...
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