I have a story coming out in a month or so called Judgement in an anthology called Apologue of the Immortals. (An Apologue, for those who haven’t swallowed the OED, is a moral fable.) Anyway, I was interviewed by the …
A few months ago I sold a story called Second-Hand Eyes. The premise was that implanted medical equipment (in this case, eyes) could stop being supported and leave users out of luck. I thought I was being cleverly futuristic. But …
The other day, we were shopping for a birthday present for a friend and decided on a particular Lego set. We join the scene in progress: Arlen: Are you going to order it on-line? Anna: Or I could just run …
My story Swapping Up just came out today in Particular Passages 4. (For some reason the link for the ebook is different. It will hopefully fix itself). This is a quirky story of which I am very fond. (Am I …
The case has been broken on the keypad outside our garage-door for a while, and I finally got around to replacing it. I was going to deprogram the old one and throw it out, but Anna had a better idea. …
I went to a writing conference this weekend and really enjoyed it. I met some fun and interesting people, learned a bunch of stuff, and also got several ideas for several of my ongoing projects. But there were a couple …
We are currently on vacation, so I haven’t been staying quite on-top of things as usual (so, below an already low bar). Anyway, I just found out that my story Bit Parts has come out in print in a best-of …
Way back in 2020, there was a weird thing happening–people all over America were receiving unsolicited packages of seeds. No one was sure exactly what was going on with this, but the consensus was that the seeds were being shipped …
My story Second-Hand Eyes was just published by Flash In A Flash. FiaF is not a traditional publication–they send out stories to all of their subscribers a couple of times a week. They’ve used a couple of my other stories …
For my birthday, Anna gave me a Lego set of the Titanic. As you can see, I finally finished it! It probably took me about a month, doing a bit here or there. This thing is enormous. It is 4′ …