Week 13 and Jumper (and Ubik)

Another week, another story. This time I wrote about someone accidentally transporting himself into a motivational poster. I took inspiration from a novel I just finished: Jumper, by Steven Gould. I got it cause I saw that the new sequel, Impulse, was on the Nebula reading list. It's about a guy who learns he can …

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 …

Week 10 and Borges

I finished a sort of thing this week. It's barely a story, more a rambling about erasing and altering memories. Once again I didn't use the song prompt, but it's a good one so I might use it next week. I discovered Jorge Luis Borges this week also, who somehow had escaped my awareness until …

week 9

I nearly gave up this week, then I came across a story I'd started writing a month or two back and got re-inspired by it, and finished it. I think this is the first time I've ever managed to come back to a project that I put on hold. Most the time when I 'take …

week 8 and Europa Report

Finished the story for this week which was about some people who live on an island in the sky, and one  man who believes there are other islands and wants to try to fly to one. Started out feeling pretty good about it, but then it just fell apart. I got to the end but …