Foundation: Reading this book was one of the first times I really understood how short life is, and it forced my young self to actually consider my own mortality. The story covers thousands of years, and the characters come and go over that time, each playing their part and barely remembering or understanding those before …
The several books I own: 2001
If only books weren't so heavy. Yesterday I took 4 boxes full of books and one full of movies to half priced books, and sold them. It was sad, but I really can't carry them around, especially since I'm planning on moving a third the way across the country via car in a month or …
Errors
The story, titled 'Three Seconds', has been edited and sent off to Clarkesworld. Unfortunately, as I realized when I opened the file to send it to a friend, I somehow royally fucked up the formatting. Multiple fonts, no indentations, missing paragraph breaks... yeah, it was pretty terrible. So, now I'm just waiting around to be …
Sleep and Stories.
I finished writing a story last week which I was going to post here, but then after I was finished I thought 'hey this is pretty good, actually' so I decided to fix it up and try to sell it instead. I went over it a few times, removed and changed and added and tweaked, …
A bee.
I saw a bee on the way back from a run to the store today (I have been running lately, now that the sun is showing its face, in an effort to not be so horribly out of shape). Â It was a fuzzy black bumblebee bobbing around in the grass, searching for something special to …
Jonas David 