I have failed in my goal of posting here every week. Or every two weeks. Or every month. Or every two months. Or three. This is a failure I could have predicted from the start, and one reason I never started a blog before last spring. So, where have I been? Since August, The Kalis […]
The Major Locations of Eris
Sports Day
I remember track and field day back in elementary school. A day of friendly competition at the end of the year, with races, long jumps, high jumps, and so on for colored ribbons. After the long year was behind us, it was fun to have one short day of no school work and no pressure, […]
Wait! I was reading that!
There is a possibility someone was reading the chapters of Within a Name I had been posting here on a semi-regular basis, only to check in a few weeks ago to see that not only was there no new chapters up, but 4-6 were now missing entirely. Well, there is a reason for that, and […]
The Word Association Test
When I was a kid, probably in first or second grade, I was put in the “special” class for a while, probably because I couldn’t for the life of me pronounce a proper “r.” How I eventually figured out how to say things like “Red Riding-hood was ridiculous and should have never wandered from home” […]
Technology
There’s a certain, not entirely incorrect assumption about Japan that it’s some kind of futuristic wonderland. It’s true, it’s the birthplace of the camera phone and giant, glasses-free 3D TVs, cyberpunk-like TV billboards, ass-washing toilets, and soon, a maglev train capable of going 600km/h. Fish sauce vending machines, digital, music-playing rice cookers, self-heating bathtubs, a […]
“What Ever Happened to the Publishing Deal?”
(Thanks in part to a blog post by Cal P. Logan, which inspired me to get this written down while it’s still stewing. You can find the post in question here:https://calplogan.com/blog/2018/12/27/why-i-turned-down-the-only-publishing-contract-ive-been-offered ). Not that his and my situations are similar, other than we both broke ties with a publisher.) As some of you might know, […]
Principality of Two Forts
The Catalogue
(This is the first story I ever published: 3rd place winner of the 2009 Vancouver Currier Literary Contest, which was to write a story that included the line, “The ‘gift’ came in a small, brown box.”) Millard Bottomwell found the magazine a few steps from the trail, half-buried under a flat stone and spattered with […]
Within a Name-Chapter 1
(Way back in 2011 I took part in the 3 Day Novel competition, and won… well, nothing, but it was a great experience anyway. Just for the hell of it, I decided I should post it here, chapter by chapter. I’m going through it to clean it up a bit, but it’s otherwise as written […]