This week's story was about someone trying to open a gate to a parallel universe. I had a prompt from a competition on a forum I frequent, I haven't seen how I rate yet, so you'll hear next week 🙂 I finished reading Reflex and it was really good, the writing seemed to improve a …
Week 12 and A Scanner Darkly
Another week down and I actually like the story I did this week... for now. I may hate it when I read it again in a couple weeks. It's about an old man with a head injury trying to decide if the strange thing he's seeing out his kitchen window is real or not. I …
The Stars My Destination
I just finished reading The Stars My Destination (originally published as Tiger! Tiger!) by Alfred Bester. I didn't mean to pause from the Count of Monte Cristo. I only meant  to read the preview in the Kindle store, as someone had mentioned it as one of the best Sci Fi novels ever and I'd never heard of …
week 6 and Jane Eyre
This week I again paused from my regular song prompts to do something for a contest among friends. I was required to write a story about a picture of a creepy looking swing set, which didn't much appeal to me. So I took it literally and wrote about an actual picture of a swing set …
The Adjacent, by Christopher Priest
Yes, it's another Priest book. I can't seem to stop reading them. This one features a desolate future plagued by terrorism and war. Our protagonist, Tarent, is a photographer who's wife is killed by a new kind of weapon that obliterates anything within the area of an equilateral triangle shaped explosion. Upon returning home to London …
Jonas David 