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November 20, 2014
Good Fathers Do Not Shake Their Babies
Photo credit: Juliane Riedl In prenatal courses, the teacheris required to spend some time talking to the group of parents-to-be about Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS). Our nurse-teacher went one further and demonstrated how easy it was to perform. She grabbed a baby-sizeddoll and shook it four times with stringent arms. “Why won’t you stop crying?” […]
November 15, 2014
The Farmhouse
Long ago, long before the town was a dark a place as it is now, there was an old man named Gomer Krinsky. This old man, Gomer—he was old thenandhe is old now, at least by any measure you may think of. Some have said that he is older than the landitself, but the only […]
October 17, 2014
We Are Caterpillars
My daughter, after a long two hours of not being able to have skin-to-skin time with her mother, finally got the opportunity. She was strewnwith leads to monitor her heart-rate and breathing, her nose was attached toan oxygen tube that made her look like a tiny rhinoceros, and an ugly IV was taped to her […]
September 25, 2014
What It Means To Relax
I wonder how many times you do the same thing I do. You get home from work and merrily sit down in front of the TV, unfocus your eyes, andrelax. I could browse around StatsCanada and tell you how many hours on average people spend watching movies, playing videogames, browsing the interwebs, playing on their […]
September 15, 2014
Twitch
Hey guys! So, the big story is finally here. My maiden voyage into publishing with Amazon and Kobo is complete! I’m going to post the opening scenebelow this little blurb, but first let me introduce the project to you: Twitch is the culmination of two mad weeksof writing which were about two years apart in […]
September 12, 2014
Ancient Roots
Sybil Nakamura stared from the patio of her eighth floor apartment. She managed this with a strained expression, stuffed between potted plants and other balconies full of lesser tended-to potted plants. Packed into a tiny can of existence, she was. But she liked it out here better than she liked being inside. Inside her plants […]
September 2, 2014
Upcoming Short Story: Twitch
Exciting news! Full Cover Art at the bottom of this article! As I work on a couple of larger projects that keep getting bigger, namely a science-fiction novel and a murder mystery, I decided to take a little break and rewrite a short story from a couple of years back. This was a story that […]
August 13, 2014
The Return
Life has taken some turns on me lately. I’ll take you to the beginning… Not the literal beginning because I get queasy thinking about that, but rather the beginning of my disappearance from the website. It all starts around the end of May, but not on a dark and stormy night. A Mysterious Announcement goes […]
August 12, 2014
Contributed Story… The First Of Many?
Hey readers whom I love. I’m just posting a link here for you all so you can check out this awesome story by my first contributor, Garrett Davis. Leveris a flash fiction continuing the story of Grishner the robot, a character whom I created inFirst Impression. This was written by a writer-friend of mine who […]
May 25, 2014
Mysterious Announcement
For those of you who are subscribed or pay attention to me on social media, this will probably only come as half-news. The news being that the previously Untitled Mystery I posted to the site (removed long ago) continues to become a much bigger work. Originally on the website I had about 3, 000 words […]
