The grind

I logged into my Submissions Grinder account for the first time since 2014, and boy did I used to submit a lot of stories everywhere... I miss that. Writing novels has kind of taken a lot of the excitement and feeling of making progress out of writing for me, since they take so damn long. …

Who wrote this?

I've been re-watching season one of the new Doctor Who, and it is so refreshingly good from the newer seasons. Mainly because it makes sense, character's choices have reasons, cause and effect exist, etc. That is, until I got to 'the empty child'. Watching that I started to have the same, vaguely annoyed feeling of …

Very short story

I accepted a random challenge to write a 75 word story about a duel at high noon... this is what I came up with:   No shadows. Sun sizzles on my scalp. Lips crack, skin flakes red. Eyes blink sticky. My tongue is a paper reproduction. Resist. Cool crystalline water, ice snap popping, condensation beading …

Submitting again

I submitted that story I wrote on Thursday, to Fireside fiction. I fixed it up some and got a bit of feedback, but there isn't much time as they are only open for submissions for a week at a time here and there. Excited to hear back from them! I have a good feeling about …

A short story appears

I've written one for the first time in months, and all in one sitting--something i haven't done in over 5 years. It was exhilarating, satisfying and gave me lots of brain endorphins--it also turned out really good! How did this happen? I signed up on Thursday for a contest which had a deadline of Sunday …