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Musical Inspiration: Bastille – Pompeii

When it comes to writing, music is one of my most transporting sources of inspiration. There are times when one particular song grabs hold and sticks with me for a while. A very long while.

Bastille’s Pompeii is currently that song. The first time I heard Pompeii, I was in my car–I forget where I was going–but I do remember that I got chills.

The muses immediately descended.

Don’t you just LOVE when that happens in a moment when you can’t do anything about it? I was driving, man. Driving!

In any...

#FridayFlash: Beast

He’s a cliché, the all too solemn, emotionally vampiric type. Burdened by the nose ring, the deviant sex habit and the penchant for poisoning his patients, he’s a regular old Doctor I-Know-Every-Thing.

He’s the kinda guy who smirks at you across the parking lot in broad daylight and makes your skin crawl.You’d scurry away and you keep your head down because neither that thin veneer of civility nor the toothily salacious smile can quite manage to fool you.

The man is an animal. He’s a mean, miso...

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E.M. McDowell’s Dark Luminance

I’m very pleased to introduce the first guest author at Signal+, E.M. McDowell and his novel, Dark Luminance. In his book, today’s guest author poses a perturbing question.

How do you survive in a world that is not your own?

Drama Abounds

Dark Luminance is the story of Dr. Mackland Luther and his companions battling undead mutants and a telepathic madman in an attempt to get back to their own universe after an experiment gone horribly wrong.

I couldn’t get a hold of author E.M. McDowell for a one...

Hard as a Rock

Never cry, never share

never show your fear,

Never show grief or shame

or give vulnerability

a name;

Beneath that veneer

of civility,

Your nails curl inward

digging into flesh,

Cradling every good and ill

bottled up within;

Everything kept

secret,

everything you hold

So dear.

Filed under: Poetry Tagged: abstract poetry, inner strength, weakness

#FridayFlash: Dreamer and Songbird

Think of life as a stream, a grand and beautiful stream if you will. It shimmers and curves. It winds boldly, sinuously through the deep, dark earth. It widens into sparkling brilliance, narrows then vanishes into the thick of the night.

Our intrepid dreamer watches from the deck of a distant ship, with longing. It bows down–her winged chariot, sails aflutter, spurning the stars’ velvet embrace.

She alights. Her bare toes caress the powdery sand. She puts one foot forward. She delves down. She...

Blood Binds #3

– Blood Grudge –

Hel detoured to the shower before going after her dubious savior. She dragged on jeans and a rumpled shirt before joining Charls in the kitchen. The small television on the counter was turned to a low volume.

He was wearing new jeans and a cable-knit sweater, so disconcertingly ordinary. It was as close to ordinary as a dimension hopping sorcerer, slumming it in a non-magical world could look.

He manned the stove with an incomprehensible level of ease and seemed to be making din...

All in a word….

Tonya R. Moore:

This is an excellent idea! I’ll definitely be participating.

You should too–I mean it would be so much fun if you did.

Originally posted on The 13th Floor Paradigm:

Today I’m opening a new writing prompt! Each week, I will give you a word, quote or photo and from that I would like to see with what you come up with!

I’m going to start off nice and easy…This week’s word, which I found by the way on We Drink Because We’re Poets’ Facebook page is:

Once you’ve written your poem or stor...

2014 Smashwords “Read an Ebook” Week

2014 Smashwords Read an Ebook Week kicks off on March 2nd. This event is an opportunity for authors to offer free or discounted works of fiction, in the spirit of encouraging readers to explore digital works.

This year, the promotion will run from 3/2/2014 thru 03/08/2014.

“At one minute past midnight Pacific Time on March 2, the special Smashwords Read an Ebook Week promotion catalog goes live on the Smashwords home page. Readers can browse the catalog and search by coupon code levels and cate...

Blood Binds #2

– “CAVALRY” —

Hel woke up with a vicious headache. Waking up at all was miracle enough, she supposed. How’d she even gotten into bed? The last thing she remembered was engaging in a none too friendly meet and greet with the floor.

Hel’s senses prickled. Something was wrong here. Something was very wrong. Her bedroom door was open. Strains of Brahms floated in from her living room stereo. The volume was turned down low.

She slipped out from under the covers. The crippling pain was gone but her le...