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October 23, 2021
Fishing (Flash Fiction Fridays #7)
Aria clutched onto the railing of the deck. “You just had to suggest this mission, didn’t you?”
Eric grimaced as another impact rocked the ship. Chunks of mangled wood flew through the air, and he scrambled for cover as one of the masts came crashing down. Frantic screams and what he was pretty sure were the raccoon equivalents of cursing filled the air. “In my defence, I think it was completely reasonable to think that a mission involving catching some fish would be relatively straightforward s...
October 21, 2021
Writers Write
If I had to name the single biggest mistake that aspiring writers make, it’s that they don’t write enough.
That might sound bizarre, but consider the following situation.
You want to be a bodybuilder. It’s been your dream for years. Naturally, you do some research. You investigate successful bodybuilders to learn what exercises they do and how they handle their diet and nutrition. You even go out and buy the latest, most effective training equipment you can afford. You leave no stone unturned be...
October 16, 2021
The Twilight Terror (Flash Fiction Fridays #6)
The last remaining members of Everton’s Council glanced at one another as bells began to toll throughout the city.
“He’s finally here.” One councillor got to his feet. “It took longer than we expected.”
“It was only a matter of time. It took him a year to wipe out the Empire. He was younger and smaller then.” The other councillor shook her head. “We’ve lasted almost as long, but we still don’t know why he’s attacking in the first place. Nobody does.”
“Does it matter?” The third councillor asked....
October 8, 2021
Pity The Front Desk
Can you imagine working at the front desk of an Adventurer’s Guild? It might sound boring at first, but I think it would actually be rather depressing.
Think about it.
We read plenty of stories about novice adventurers surviving missions by the skin of their teeth as they climb the ranks and becomes heroes of renown. What we don’t read a lot of stories about are the novice adventurers who don’t survive those missions.
Consider the typical ‘weeding’ mission where a village asks some adventurers t...
October 7, 2021
Object Permanence (Flash Fiction Fridays #5)
Katie raised one eyebrow at the sight of a baby poking her master in the face with chubby fingers. “Master, I know you’re interested in recruiting more minions, but maybe you should wait a few years.”
Spot slithered around her and then bounded toward her master’s desk. It’s the baby from before!
“Before?” Katie asked.
“Ah, right.” Her master chuckled and settled the baby onto his lap. The baby boy’s gaze swiftly locked onto Spot. “This young man happens to be the son of one of the maids. I wante...
Another Season
Well, the NBA season is going to start soon.
It’s time for another season of supporting the San Antonio Spurs. I look forward to raging out at my computer whenever we lose a game and running around the house like an idiot whenever we win.
Obviously, the last few seasons haven’t been ideal, but I’m okay with that. How many NBA fans have gotten to see their team win five championships? It’s basically the Lakers and Celtics, and in the case of the Celtics, you’d have to be pretty old to remember fi...
October 1, 2021
Creation (Flash Fiction Fridays #4)
Death loved Life, but he was well aware of the other Greater God’s eccentricities. The last time she had been this enthused about one of her creations, the mortal world had been devastated by honey badgers the size of elephants. To this day, she insisted that the sudden increase in mortal death rates had absolutely nothing to do with her beloved honey badgers and that being ordered to make them smaller was a terrible injustice.
“Look!” Life held up her newest creation. “I call it… the freshwater...
September 28, 2021
My Brain On Sunday Morning
Me: Sleeping peacefully.
6:00 AM arrives.
My Brain: Get up, idiot! It’s 6AM on Sunday, and you’ve got an assignment for Lagrangian Dynamics due at 8AM Monday morning! Move! Move! Move!
Me: Combat rolls out of bed like a ninja and staggers toward my desk.
My Brain: Come on! There’s no time! Get to work! Now!
Me: Starts up laptop, scrambles to grab a pen and paper…
My Brain: What are you waiting for? Get to work! Go! Go! Go!
Me: Wait… a Lagrangian Dynamics assignment? That doesn’t m...
September 26, 2021
Progress Report 27-09-2021
Well, it’s time for another progress report. Also, please keep in mind that if you ever see a date on this webpage, it’s going to be in the Australian format (Day/Month/Year) rather than the US format (Month/Day/Year). Obviously, that’s not much of an issue with today’s date, but it can definitely be a bit aggravating when it’s something like the 8th of October (i.e., 8/10/2021).
First of all, work continues on Cosmic Delivery Boy. That should be coming out late October or early November, deepen...
September 24, 2021
Cover Up (Flash Fiction Fridays #3)
“I understand that you’re new to this, Mark, but it would really help if you could start killing things.”
He stared at me, and I tossed him a shotgun. “Seriously?”
“Mark, I’m not sure you understand what we’re dealing with.” I leaned around the corner, took aim, and blew the head off another zombie. “We’re in the early stages of a zombie apocalypse. Right now, there are a lot of zombies, but not so many that we can’t just kill them all. In a few hours? Yeah. I don’t think we’ve got enough guns f...
