Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

I found myself inspired by the end of this book. The final sentence really wraps it up, and I liked the color it gave to all the preceding (and proceeding?) stories. It's not really a spoiler, but it goes something like this: "Your efforts will be nothing but a drop in the ocean!" "What is …

Running out of thoughts

Is it possible to run out of thoughts? Or are they in infinite supply? I think you could only run out of thoughts or ideas, if you stopped having new experiences. Every idea is a recombination of things you've already seen and heard, or some conclusion reached based on those experiences. So, if you find …

Website

I've decided to make one to host all my unpublished stories. They're just sitting there, on my hard drive, dozens of them, a few of them even decent reads! Why not put them somewhere readily available? So, in the near future there will be a fancy new website for folks to click on and see …

Submitted ? ?

I have broken my streak of donothingness and submitted a story to Clarkesworld magazine! This is mostly a symbolic gesture, as I am well aware that the story is not of Clarkesworld caliber, but I wanted to get my feet back in the water and do SOMETHING. And since Clarkesworld has the fastest response time …

Toto or not Toto

As you may, or much more likely may not have noticed, for a bit more than two weeks I've been roughly inserting song lyrics into my blog posts. Yes, I am a fan of the band Toto. No, I have nothing better to do with my time then figure out how to work lyrics into …