There’s a lot of tips and tricks on how to bear writer’s block. Ultimately, as we all know, the only way to beat writer’s block is to simply write. Still, there’s something to be said for kickstarting your creative thought process. Ideas come from the strangest places. Most of us nowadays write on our computers, […]
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3 Things You Don’t Know About Venus
Anyone can tell you Venus is the second closest planet to the sun. Or that it’s hotter than the devil’s underpants on the surface (over 850-degrees Fahrenheit). Or that it rotates backwards. Pish posh! I’m going to leave all of those vanilla facts about Venus to the myriad of sites that like the mediocrity of repeating […]
Continue readingIt Hurts (Poem)
I’ve been thinking a lot about my mom lately; she passed away in November, 2010. This is for her. when I was five and life was a song of excitement and innocence the world was full of mystery and I had never felt the pain of hurt or loss of any kind and then one day a playmate pushed me right off the swing you picked me up brushed me off told me not to cry ‘mommy,’ I said, ‘it hurts’ when I was sixteen and in love for the first time to a young Cuban girl I felt like an adult doing adult things dates and kissing and groping and late-night phone calls with the cord stretched and twisted through the house and under my door and then one day she left me for another teenage crush and I felt world-ending anguish burning, hot, consuming as only a teenager can feel them you held me close told me I’d be ok ‘but mom,’ said I, ‘it hurts.’ when I was thirty-five at the end of my marriage holding on to it with desperate and futile hands trying to be a good father to my sons who put me on a pedestal high enough to rival the gods I fought depression […]
Continue readingTrending (short fiction)
“It’s happened again.” Milla ran an ash-covered hand across the heavy lids of her eyes and turned her gaze towards her partner. The reports had been coming in all night long; people, most of them teenagers, all over the city becoming comatose and unresponsive. Not just a few reported incidents, but hundreds of them so […]
Continue readingGoogle HTC Nexus 9 Tablet Clicking issue
I was very excited to buy my Google Nexus 9 tablet from Amazon in March, 2015. I happily gave up my iPad mini and was looking forward to going back to Android. With the release of Lollipop, I was not disappointed. Sure, it has some issues, most notably a memory leak) but finally the OS […]
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The Patriotic Racist
Take a look at this picture I saw on Facebook yesterday. Let me describe it to you. This self-proclaimed patriot, Dave Southern, ostensibly says he takes issue with flag burning. He’s crouching in front of an American flag, an AR-15 cradled in his lap. He’s wearing a tactical vest, sunglasses, a baseball cap, and appears to […]
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The Pumpkin Principle (short fantasy)
“It wasn’t supposed to be a pumpkin, you know. They play hell on transformation spells.”
Elsie would know; she was, after all, a level seventy-four Witch. Her conical hat was embroidered with the crest of our Order, and rumor had it she was next in line to become Matriarch of the order. Of course, the current Matriarch would have to die first. Considering the Deal Marhkat had made with certain Powers, the chances of that happening anytime in the next few centuries was slim indeed. Still, accidents did happen. Rather more frequently the higher in the Order on rose, as happenstance would have it.
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The BinaryBiker is a Candy Striper
Today was my first shift as a volunteer at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Pittsburgh. I’ve been wanting to give back for a while now. I’ve struggled with cancer awareness and activism, because it always made me feel a little . . . vain. It makes me feel self-conscious. I don’t want to be […]
Continue readingSyncopathic Synthesis (poem)
A Valentine’s Day poem for my beloved Carey. Some men listen to the beat of music; they sway in mute ecstasy as the bass pushes syncopathic within their chest Some men stand on top of the mountain, drinking in the whole world synoptically and revel in […]
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Common Ancestor (sci-fi)
Wynona rubbed the lump on the back of her head in sullen silence as Maxine and Carla laughed at her. The iceball had caused her to see stars and fall to the ground in shocked agony. Iceballs were illegal according to the unspoken rules of schoolyard snowball fights, but Maxine and Carla didn’t care. They went […]
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May 22, 2015 