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They say bad things happen to good people. Well, good things happen to good people too — but no one complains about that.

An investment banker cheats on his fifth wife with some gold-digging floozy, and the universe doesn’t care. Not one bit. Gnash your teeth about it if you want, demonize him until your […]

October 13th, 2009 | Category: Fiction | 3 comments

The only possible title for this is “The Case of the Missing Rain”

This was whipped up today during my downtime at work. It’s the result of precisely zero research, editing or revision and I have absolutely no idea where I could possibly go with it.

Jocelyn could see every grain of wood, every knot of rigging. Every detail made sense, and the ones that didn’t she pieced […]

September 24th, 2009 | Category: Fiction | 3 comments

The character who won’t leave my head.

Here’s a frequent-ish occurence: I’ll be laying in bed trying to fall asleep when an extraordinarily vivid almost perfectly-formed character will just suddenly pop into existence and then not leave. Sometimes I’ll get up and try to expunge the interloper with some slipshod writing. Sometimes I just toss and turn until I drift off into […]

September 15th, 2009 | Category: Fiction | 6 comments

Quite Contrary

Quite Contrary a short story about Mary Sue

It was pouring, and Mary Sue had just caused another accident. Her second this year. She had been sitting at a red arrow, focusing her attention on her iPod, when someone behind her honked. Misinterpreting the honk as “the light just turned green, so go” she tried […]

July 30th, 2009 | Category: Fiction | One comment
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