Before I talk a bit about the short story, I have convention news! Confluence, a Pittsburgh convention, has decided to go on-line this year, shifting its name to C’monfluence. I have not done an on-line convention yet, but I’ll be one of the on-line guests. I don’t have a lot of information about what, exactly, I’ll be participating in yet, but it’s free to register/join. Today’s short story — on Monday, even — is Flight. It’s the second dinosaur story (there has been no third, and it’s not connected to the first one). The only thing I remembered about this one – before formatting and proofing – was the use of two names, tuckerizations of two real life people I knew from GEnie. I didn’t remember the actual plot, just flashes of scenes; I also didn’t remember how I ended it >.<. The … Continue reading
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Well. Today, WordPress upgraded to 5.5. This… broke things, for the first time since 2.x, on my site. Much of the morning, in which I intended to upload the latest short story (after formatting, proofing, etc.) was stalled by the fact that the backend of my site wasn’t really working. (Jeremy Tolbert rescued me: he told me exactly what was broken – a plug-in. It’s upgraded and working now). And then, to top it all off, when uploading the story to kindle, I uploaded the wrong story. I noticed this when uploading to Kobo, because the cover… was the last story’s cover T_T. I have not, however, thrown my computer out the window. Barely. This short story was published in 1997, so written in 1996. It’s interesting … Continue reading
So, this is late. And people who are looking at the covers will realize that I have jumped from 17 to 19. Story 18 was an alternate history, written over a quarter of a century ago (yes, I’m old), and I am just not comfortable with it. It was alternate future, not alternate past, and the key character is… someone who is alive now, adult, and not in any way but name associated with the character in the story. Don’t write stories with fictionalized real people T_T. Because I was angsting about this — and about the face that I know nothing about photoshop and cannot therefore change the numbers on the covers of the stories — I may have fallen off the stability wagon a bit and therefore did not get a new story … Continue reading
This is a bit late today. I got up at 7:00 in the morning and came downstairs and did all the proofing and formatting and… woke up. So, in fact, it wasn’t done. Grumpy, I rolled over and got up and came downstairs and proofread and formatted and then… woke up again. Third time apparently is the charm, but it’s unusual to have dreams that mundane. You can’t call them nightmares because it’s awful only once you’ve woken up and realize that all that theoretical work was a dream and it still has to be done. I have no idea why my subconscious is trying to give me ulcers. I mean… once? Okay. But twice? As I’ve been doing, the story in .pdf download is here. The story has … Continue reading
It’s Monday again. Today’s short story is What She Won’t Remember. As usual, the .pdf, linked above, can be downloaded for free (you might have to “save as” after you’ve clicked on the link). The book page is here. B&N and iTunes have not gone live yet; the former is propagated through Smashwords. I’ll add links as they go live. This was written for Mike Resnick’s Alternate Outlaws just over a quarter century ago. It was only a little bit longer than what was requested. I was still far more comfortable with novel writing than with short story writing. And in some ways, this has continued, which will probably be a surprise to no one. *** I am still writing. I can’t remember if I mentioned that I’ve sold the … Continue reading
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