Luke Alistar's Blog

Opening Sentences and Paragraphs

Just for fun, I thought I would compile a list of the opening sentences or paragraphs of mostnovels and novellas I’ve written, plus someshort stories. Maybe this will be boring, maybe it will be interesting. I suppose you will find out. I’ve included the status of the book in parentheses. Archived books may have been […]

Apparently Working a Job is a Nuisance

“Wow. Someone I know is asking friends and acquaintances to support him monetarily so he can do what he loves to do – write novels and compose music. Working a job is a nuisance so he wants everyone to commit to replacing his income so he can do what he loves to do.” This is […]

Patreon, Geriatric Superheroes, and Bacon-Wrapped Steak

Massive trees are swaying in the wind outside, and snow swirls around them in a pretty good imitation ofa blizzard.I am safe and mostly warm inside, enjoying the first snowfall of the year from a distance and beginning work on a new short story about geriatric superheroes. They go up against a moody teenage supervillain […]

A Queer Condition – Part Two

I really didn’t need the added stress on top of finding out I was dying. But I had that mythical sense of ‘had to do it’ like the grim action heroes get in the movies. So I stood outside my parents’ locked door, staring through the ornate frosted glass at the home I couldn’t return […]

A Queer Condition – Part One

Caffeine: A slightly addictive stimulant drug found in some plants, used to temporarily reduce drowsiness. Also known to cause psychic abilities in a certain girl. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “I hate being a girl!” To emphasize my sincerity, I punished my shoes for existing by throwing them across the room. “Easy on the shoes, dear. They […]

Starshine and the Space Cadet – Chapter One

I always post the first chapter of my novels. I’ve abandoned many of them, but hopefully that won’t happen to this book. Even if it does, at least you get to enjoy the beginning of it. —————————————————————————– The cadets lined up facing their instructor, rigid and silent. “You are here today because you were selected […]

Cleaning Up and Moving Forward

I just deleted 179 old posts off this blog. Lots of outdatedinformation, old stories and poems I’m ashamed to claim as my own, and opinion pieces I no longer agree with. I grew up a lot in the past four years, holy cow. Somehow I still haven’t outgrown the phrase “holy cow”, though. Maybe I […]

Matt’s Giant Book Sale

I’m moving at the beginning of October, and considering that I have no idea when I could possibly open a bookstore, if I ever do, I thought it would make more sense to sell my excess books now. Which means you have a shot at some really cheap books. I have 587 books left, and […]

The World Might Raise Eye Brow

A while back I received this fantastic junk email. I found it so entertaining that I saved it and have given it the titleThe World Might Raise Eye Brow. It has inspired me to create new levels of comedy–probably low levels, but a lot of comedy is pretty low. I may be writing my own […]

Caffeinated Psychic

The first time I had coffee, I thought someone had laced it with a hallucinogenic drug. It happened like this… I walked into the little café with my schoolbooks and a handful of change. After being teased for never having coffee before—not my fault, my parents just never had it around—I decided it was about […]