I wrote this one on the flight to Vegas--in First Class! Inspired by: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/bridge-forest-fantasy-trees-light...

I missed last week again. I was writing several pieces for competitions--Writers of the Future, NYC Midnight's 100 Word Microfiction...

Can a villain be sympathetic? Even a destroyer of worlds? I've never written a sympathetic villain. Every character should have flaws,...

I missed last week, recovering from COVID. This week's entry started out as a literary piece full of angst, but quickly turned to the...

I've taken a few weeks off for a variety of reasons, but I'm resuming this week. This one is inspired by a couple things: a recent...

This entry could be the prologue to a novel I want to write someday. I've written it in my head many times. Maybe I'll get it down in...

I was traveling the last couple of Fridays, so I missed two weeks in a row. This week, though, I got a strange inspiration from the...

This one is a bit of a genre mashup. I think I even invented a new word for it, "Mistpunk." I admit Steampunk is not a favorite genre of...

Somehow, my mind keeps going back to haunted B&Bs. Go figure. pixabay.com/photos/living-room-victorian-historic-581073 Flowers Under...

I was in Colorado Springs at the Superstars Writing Seminar 2022 last week, and the timezones screwed me up. Well, the bourbon had...

There isn't much of story to this one, I'm afraid. photo courtesy of Becky Strike, Oak Alley Plantation, LA. The Color Doesn't Matter...

I've been negligent the last few weeks, but I'm back. At least this week. This one is inspired by: Pixabay.com/photos/ufos-space-stars-sp...

This one came pretty easy, maybe fifteen minutes for the draft. It's called "What Lives They Contain," and could be the prologue of a...

Here is this week's entry inspired by: Pixabay.com/photos/portland-head-light-lighthouse-5539153. Ceirean The sea bulges, a mound many...

This week's post is an experiment in dialect. It's called "Ob'lisk" and is inspired by: Pixabay.com/photos/old-elisabeth-houses-historica...

I forgot to submit last week's post to the FWG site, so you might want to take a look at "Ogres' Home", also. Anyway, this week's effort...

I squeezed this one in between NaNoWriMo and the 20BooksTo50K conference. It's inspired by: Https://pixabay.com/photos/lost-places-attic...

I missed a couple of weeks due to travel to sunny Myrtle Beach, SC for some end of the season golf. The weather was perfect, the golf...

This week's piece is an adult fairy tale. Fairy tales were told to warn children of the dangers out there in the wide world. As we get...

I missed last week. I've been battling a cold/flu (COVID Negative) for over a week, and I'm losing the battle. But, I've got one for this...