I've finished my first story for the Ray Bradbury challenge! I was given the song 'Jonestown' as a prompt, and ended up writing about someone lost in a desert who finds an oasis populated by a cult. I much enjoy songs as prompts, so I decided to stick with that theme. I went to my …
Okay, Ray
Ray Bradbury once advised that before one writes a novel, they should first write a story per week for a year. So, that's what I'm going to do. I've scheduled my first story to be done on the 6th next month, and after that, one per week every week until i get 52. I won't …
Wet Mars
NASA's rover Curiosity has made an exciting discovery--the soil of Mars contains about two percent water by weight. This means that any colonizers would be able to extract about one pint of water per square foot of Martian dirt. This discovery suddenly makes the idea of people living on Mars a lot more feasible, a …
Thrag
I've started a new blog with Lisa from CiceroGrade. It's a goofy satirical story with no plan, and is very bad. We're writing it in turns with almost no communication, so who knows where it will go! Â If you like bad fantasy, or or enjoy rolling your eyes at tropes, cliches and ridiculousness, then you …
Spider
There was a little jumping spider on the table at a fast food restaurant I ate at the other day. I don't remember her being there when I sat down, but suddenly there she was, as well as some kind of flying insect, like a small crane fly, which looked like it was injured. I …
Jonas David 