Taking Aim
SILLY ROBOT GIRL SEEKS LIKEMINDED PEEPS for sparodic adventures into literary lunacy. Respondants must be curious, bookish types seeking intermittent journeys into fantastical lands of fiction....
View ArticleWhat Came Before
The Ideal Bookshelf, based on an original painting by Jane Mount. For the last month or so I’ve been helping out a friend with a sci-fi story he’s been working on, but never really done much with. I’d...
View ArticleCamp Nano: Mid-month Madness
The storyverse my novel takes place in started out as a world building exercise last year. I wanted to create an interesting system with a few habitable planets, an asteroid belt with a couple of...
View ArticleSwamp Night Delight
Swamp Fever by Andree Wallin There was a shotgun in my left hand. I remember the weight of it keenly. I knew how to use it. Which was odd, since I’ve never laid eyes on a gun before. It may have been...
View ArticleCamp NaNo: Victory Lap
Please excuse me while I collapse into a pitiful heap, surrounded by empty wine bottles and snapped pencils, scattered between piles of paperbacks and notebooks. I’m here! I did it! I think I became...
View ArticleSelf-Editing Tricks to Tuck up Your Sleeve
Whether you’re writing a short story, blog post, poem or working on a novel, at some point you’re going to have to look back over your own words. This comes at different stages in the process for many...
View ArticleThe Woodland
A Ceepy Forest by tsonline, click-through for full size! There’s something about the mist that swirls at your feet. It slows you down, makes you feel heavier than you should. The torch in your hand...
View ArticleReinventing Reality
Very quick post today just to direct you to one of my short stories, Expendable, which I entered into a writing competition over on Inkitt! You can find it under the science fiction section or by...
View ArticleOuroboros
Corporate Shadows by Badbrushart Bit of an odd feeling, staring into the slime and seeing a version of you who doesn’t know who they are yet. Only four left now though, drifting in the ooze until...
View ArticleJust Beyond
Grey World via Josiah Munsey on Flickr “Think the sky is grey because we want it that way?” she asks. Hell of a way to speak to someone on the other side of the line. “Suits the mood, whatever the...
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