Ryan Tim Morris's Blog
September 7, 2022
The Lost Memories of Oceans
“Do you dream of other worlds, or are you lost within one?” Nettle is a Bluebell faerie from the lush lands of Sceanth, where fae are taught from birth about choosing their life veins, a stage in their development in which they slip into cocoons and experience dream-like excursions into other worlds. There are dangers,Continue reading "The Lost Memories of Oceans"
June 11, 2022
HELLO IT’S ANNA
1325 words Hello it’s Anna is short I wrote in 2022, the only prompt requirement was it be an epistolary piece. I settled on a back-and-forth email exchange between two lost, long-distant souls. Or something like that. From: 0000000000@ukr.net To: 00000000@hotmail.com Subject: re: Hello it’s Anna Date: Thurs, 23 Mar 2000 My dearest Henry! OnlyContinue reading "HELLO IT’S ANNA"
May 30, 2022
OVERPASS
3678 words I wrote this in 2022, partly based on a road trip I took with a friend of mine in 1996, but mostly based on the idea of chasing things without really knowing precisely what it is we’re really chasing. Currently out on submissions.
SPLASH
500 words Splash was a story I wrote in 2017 based on the prompt “Blue”. ~ ~ ~ Sometimes Blue wishes he could jump. He figures when the time comes, it will be when he’s not considering jumping at all. When he’s not thinking about it. Will he take a deep breath and see howContinue reading "SPLASH"
January 22, 2021
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk [2009; Translated edition 2018]
R. Tim Morris’ Rating: 8/10 While not a big reader of the Murder Mystery genre, DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD is most certainly not constrained to the genre’s usual conventions. I’ve never read Olga Tokarczuk before, but will probably hunt down (pardon the pun if you’ve read this book) some more […]
January 20, 2021
Out of the Smoke, by Matthew Wainwright [2020]
R. Tim Morris’ Rating: 8/10 Disclaimer: I’m not a regular reader of Historical Fiction or YA Fiction, and I really don’t know much about life in Victorian London ’cause I’m an uninformed schmoe. But that did not hinder my enjoyment of this title in ANY way.What I enjoyed most about OUT OF THE SMOKE was […]
November 6, 2020
The Fragile Keepers, by Natalie Pinter [2020]
R. Tim Morris’ Rating: 9/10 The moment had a personality. It was self-aware, poised, and graceful, a drifting soap bubble saying, “Look at me, remember this. Remember when everything changed.” This is the kind of line, in the kind of book, that makes me want to read it all over again. There’s moments in The […]
November 18, 2019
THE INCREDIBLE RHETT SMILEY: INFINITY’S MIRROR, by Matt Whiteside [2019]
R. Tim Morris’ Rating: 7/10 A notable effort by this indie author, Matt Whiteside does a remarkable job at balancing this Contemporary story of a sorta-doofy/often unlucky job-less writer and the Fantasy-heavy fictional book within a book that the MC has written. The Incredible Rhett Smiley is pretty funny. There are periods of action which […]
September 27, 2019
The Bugbear
The bugbear opened its palm, curling clawed fingertips inward, beckoning the brave warrior to move deeper into the temperate cave.
May 13, 2019
THE AWFUL TRUTH ABOUT THE SUSHING PRIZE [2019], by Denis Shaughnessy
R. Tim Morris’ Rating: 8/10 What a wonderful surprise of a book! After self-publishing my own books and hoping to find some readers packing positive reviews, I’m doing my own part in reading works by other Indie Authors. The Awful Truth About the Sushing Prize by Denis Shaughnessy is an absurd, irreverent, 4th-wall-breaking crime thriller. SYNOPSIS […]
