One Year’s Journey – Going Forward Sober

Last week my wife and I celebrated a nine year journey together as a couple, eight of them under the marriage contract. I wish I had harrowing tales of misfortune Read On »»

Terribleminds Flash Fiction Challenge: Choose Your Sentence

For this week’s TerribleMinds.com Flash Fiction Challenge, we chose a random sentence. “The spurs glow,” snagged my eye. Not much time to talk, but look up St. Vitus’s Dance when Read On »»

Farting in Church is Now 100% Free

For the past few weeks I’ve been torn by malaise regarding where my writing is taking me. It’s either taking me somewhere or nowhere. Ether I turn on my low-beams or high-beams Read On »»

TerribleMinds Flash Fiction Challenge: Game of Aspects, Redux

This Terrible Minds Flash Fiction Challenge made me squeee with glee. The randomly selected setting was a Martian greenhouse, and I’m obsessed with Mars  colonization. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Read On »»

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TerribleMinds Flash Fiction Challenge: Inspiration from Inexplicable Photos

This week’s challenge – write a story based on these photos from Russia. The photo I chose reminded me of when I was young, dumb and drunk and living in Read On »»

Flash Fiction Challenge: Three Haikus Tell One Story

I have such reverence for poetry, that I’ve rarely displayed my own works. Poetry is the golden temple of  language and while Poetry Slams keep the form accessible, I won’t Read On »»

TerribleMinds Flash Fiction Challenge – Choose Your Motif

Justice has come to Terriblminds.com, and a Hellstorm follows at its heels. This week’s challenge was to choose a motif, a subgenre, and a setting. I’ve  always wanted to write Read On »»

Terrible Minds Flash Fiction Challenge: Photos of Impossible Places

This week’s Terrible Minds Flash Challenge was to chose a photo from this site, and then write a story inspired by it. The first one caught my eye. In American Read On »»

Terrible Minds Flash Fiction Challenge: The Wheel Part II

I pulled from the hat Locked Room Mystery, Someone’s been poisoned, A bottle of rare whiskey. The challenge has been accepted. – It starts with a body. It ends with whiskey. Read On »»