Category: writing

Inspired by David Dubord’s literally fabulous story fragments from this week’s Someday Crits session. Read “The First Half of the Star-Sailor’s Tale” at 512 Words or Fewer

Speaking of phoning it in… I’m good at writing dialogue. Have been since high school. That’s not the problem; the problem is, I’m acutely aware of how much better I am at dialogue than at other things, like physical description…

One hundred years ago, Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome was published. The first line of that novel, now in the public domain, is the same as the first line of this week’s story. I was inspired to recycle it by…

Inspired by a recent re-watch of VOY “Message in a Bottle.” This, too, will someday grow up to be a longer story, but first I have to finish a damn novel. #writeathon Read “Rescue Gone” at 512 Words or Fewer

At this rate, you may be able to read all of this novella in flash-sized chunks before it’s actually published anywhere. See my LiveJournal for more background. Read “Everybody Loves Lawyers” at 512 Words or Fewer (Previous excerpts: “Who’s Your…

This is actually part of a longer story set in the same world as “Kangaroo’s First Day with the Eye.” And that story is background for the Kangaroo novel I’m still working on. I should really finish that soon. I…

Just in case you haven’t noticed, this week’s story and the three previous are all part of the same fictional world. If I ever pitch it as a comic book, I’ll call it Fearless Five (possibly with the last “s”…