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August 26, 2016
Why I Wrote My First Children’s Story for My Grandson
I published The Day a Dragon Came to Live with Us yesterday but not any sort of explanation about where the story came from or why I wrote it (except on Facebook and Google+). I consider it one of my best efforts but it doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of love so far. […]
August 25, 2016
The Day a Dragon Came to Live with Us
The First Story in the Adventures of the Ambrosial Dragon: A Children’s Fantasy Series The old man found thedragonin the middle of the fieldbehind his house.It’s not everyday you find a mythical beinglying in the tall, wet grass while going for a stroll. Last night there had been a terrible thunderstorm, common in Southwestern Idaho […]
August 21, 2016
I’m Going To Be Published on “Theme of Absence”
Have a look at the site Theme of Absence. As it says on the main page, it’s an “Online Magazine of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction (the lack of an Oxford comma just kills me). Anyway, the site administrator is Jason Bougger, and along with Betty Rocksteady, and Tim Bougger, they accept previously unpublished submissions […]
August 20, 2016
An AI Sexbot That Can Love You Back
Well this is kind of creepy. About a month ago, I wrote a story about a man who’d found The Perfect Woman, but as it turns out, she’s an artificial intelligence in an android body. Now I find out that on a Reddit AMA (ask me anything), Matt McMullen, CEO of RealDoll said they are […]
August 18, 2016
The Machines Are Hacking The Machines
I just read a story at New Scientist called Autonomous AI guards to stalk the internet fighting hackers. Apparently, earlier this month at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, with a $4 million prize hanging in the balance, different Artificial Intelligences were set up to hack each other while defending themselves from their opponent’s […]
August 16, 2016
Another Update on My Proposed SciFi Novel
They are still in various stages of drafts, but I’ve got eight out of twelve chapters in Word docs. They still need a lot of work, but the basic story is there. I had to add what I thought of as an “experimental” short story as a chapter. I did it to add to the […]
August 13, 2016
Transformation by Vision
“I would never write about someone who is not at the end of his rope.” -Stanley Elkin His traveling companions gently deposited the Pharisee at the edge of a sleeping mat in a small, rented room just off of Straight street in Damascus. This wasn’t how they’d imagined entering the city, nor was Sha’ul the […]
August 12, 2016
The Fifth Chapter of the Book of Jonah
Now it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was grieved. And he prayed to the Lord and said, “Please, O Lord, was this not my contention while I was still on my land? For this reason I had hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to […]
August 11, 2016
Book Review of Sigil: A Tom Regan Thriller
Wow! When I first created this blogspot and shamelessly began to promote it, a number of people commented and followed me, including 33-year old Irish thriller author Aidan J. Reid. I followed his blog back, and by the by, I saw that he had promoted his latest novel Sigil by offering the eBook on Amazon […]
When Your Sex Toy Tattles On You
Does your sex toy phone home? I know, a strange question, right? If you don’t use a technological device inserted into your body to get off, then you have nothing to worry about, but if you use the We-Vibe 4 Plus, it’s a whole other matter. I found an article at Fusion.net called This sex […]
