This week I’m taking another bit from a horror story, but it’s somewhat different than the other-worldly fiction of The Invisibles. This piece is from Candles, which can also be found in my collection Lost in the Shadows. It’s a zombie story set against the backdrop of Christmas Eve, where a widowed mother with two … More WeWriWa: Candles
I’m baaaack! Since we’re well and into October, this week’s sentences come from a short horror piece called The Invisibles, from my book Lost in the Shadows. It’s about the things that almost exist, that aren’t quite real, that lurk between thoughts, between moments, waiting and hungry… The eight: We live between what is real. We … More WeWriWa: The Invisibles
I’m back this week for Weekend Writing Warriors! I want to touch on a bit of a short I did for a magazine last year. This short, titled The Last Letter Home, is one of those three a.m. ideas, those things that grab you by the throat and won’t let you go until they’re written. … More WeWriWa: The Last Letter Home
Time for another Weekend Writing Warrior post! This week’s eight comes from my short The Guru, which appears in my recent collection with S.H. Roddey, Lost in the Shadows. It’s one of the more elusive tales in the book that describes a day in the life of an old man with a calling, the stresses this … More WeWriWa: The Guru (Lost in the Shadows)
Time once again for weekend writing warriors! This week I’m taking eight sentences from my short story All the Little Things, which appears in the new book Lost in the Shadows! This story is about how little events can pile up on a person, and how little things (appliances, inanimate objects, etc) that we usually take … More WeWriWa: All the Little Things (from Lost in the Shadows)
Trying to get back in the swing of things. Step one – get back into doing some group stuff, and Weekend Writing Warriors is first on the list! My eight sentences for this weekend come from my re-release with Mocha Memoirs Press, The Other Man! It’s a slightly different style for me, since I usually … More WeWriWa: The Other Man
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