I know it’s been done before, but I may just have to write a “Jake and Andy Meet the Varna’ut” novel for NaNoWriMo this year. Read “Just Follow Your Nose” at 512 Words or Fewer
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Friday Flash Fiction: “Not Necessarily Genre”
Okay, yeah, I’ll admit it: I pictured Hugh Laurie as Professor Glendor while I was writing this. And possibly Shelley Conn as Jodette Shah. (Feel free to cast your favorite redhead as Anne. I’d go with Amy Adams… but I…
Christmas Greetings
Below please find our traditional year-end family newsletter, which hopefully does not inspire in you the depths of revulsion described by Garfunkel and Oates: http://vimeo.com/8192170 You are, of course, free to not read it. We’ll never know! But seriously, somebody…
This is My Enterprise
Image from Wikipedia United Federation of Planets, Starfleet, Constitution-class heavy cruiser refit, launched in 2273. This is the first starship I truly loved. This is my Enterprise.* I was born four years after TOS went off the air (personal trivia:…
Friday Flash Fiction: “The Rule of Three”
I am not at #SDCC this weekend, but I am going to see Evil Dead: The Musical! tonight in Portland. Also, the photo accompanying this week’s story is a mannequin from Comic-Con 2009, promoting October Toys’ Z.O.M.B.I.E. products. So there….
Friday Flash Fiction: “Get Your Ass to Mars”
In honor of: Ray “Martian Chronicles” Bradbury, who passed away this week; Father’s Day, which happens next Sunday; and the original Total Recall (which may have less to do with the Philip K. Dick story than the upcoming remake, but…
About Last Night…
This photo from last night embodies many of the things I love about Portland, Oregon. Seated, clockwise from left: Joe, @snarke, @AubreyCello, myself, @JadeE1024, @FlameIsLove, @DeeAnnSole, @rmalena, @brittamarie, @ghalidrim, and @mariafi. Photo by Angela of @TheDoubleclicks. (Not pictured: Ana, Rob,…
How I Spent My Labor Day
DeeAnn and I had some tough decisions to make yesterday. I wanted to make a day of it at the movies; she got to pick where we’d see the second show and, based on that, which show would be the…
The Subjective Measurement Blues
Warning: lamentations ahead. I’ve been feeling some self-doubt lately about this whole writing-as-a-career thing. In large part, it’s because very often when I read a piece of published fiction–sometimes an award-winning or critically acclaimed genre story–I feel like I just….