After careful consideration, I’ve decided to scrap the draft of Shades of Evil that I’ve been working on. I made the same mistake that I did with Prosperity by crowding the plot with too many characters. There are also some inconsistencies that I felt needed attention before I can continue. Yesterday, I spent the better [...] Read more »
Fiction and Reality
Yesterday was a very inspirational day that started off early. I’m not sure why, but I struggle to get up all week, only to spring awake on the weekends. As I was working on a design, I kept thinking about the bookmarkers I had mentioned in Friday’s post. There has to be a way to [...] Read more »
Ideas Flowing in Unexpected Places
I’ve been working on Chapter 12 for what . . . a month now? It seems like longer. I had finished it two weeks earlier, only to accidentally erase it the moment I saved the next chapter. While the gist of the chapter remained in my mind, the internal monologue I had written was lost. [...] Read more »
Flash Fiction: Secrets From the Other Side
I came to bury one father and found out I had two. One is confirmed dead, and the other is presumed dead by a family I never knew. Both called themselves Bob. Though they looked identical, the subtleties were there. I thought I was the only one who knew, but I was wrong. I was [...] Read more »
Flash: Her Father’s Daughter
Shock isn’t the word I would describe when I saw her standing in that aisle with Zach. Several words and expletives come to mind, but shock isn’t one of them. Weight loss, change of hair style and trauma did nothing to change her features. I could pick her out of a dense crowd, if I [...] Read more »
Prosperity Listed on Amazon
When I wrote yesterday’s post, I honestly didn’t expect to see my book listed on Amazon before the month was up. Imagine my surprise when I found it up early this morning. There is no synopsis, and Amazon is listing it as temporarily unavailable. A year and a half ago, I had no problem uploading [...] Read more »
Midnight Road Contest Ending Soon
I’ve been checking out the progress of Jason Evans’s Midnight Road contest, while reminding myself to submit a piece. The deadline is tomorrow at midnight (EST). So if you want to participate, you’d better hurry up. That’s what I told myself yesterday afternoon. I reread the guidelines as well as some of the stories. Then [...] Read more »
Imaginary Friends
This was the only story that I’ve managed to get published. The story is about a little girl whose imaginary friends become very real when she can no longer dodge her step-father’s fists. Imaginary Friends will be republished in John Evans’s Naked Tales Anthology, which is due to be published on May 21, 2007. Read more »
Flash 2: The Promise
Theo scratched at his face. I knew what that meant. My place was in the sidelines while the men gloated over their victory. That was all right because I knew I had won mine. I would be teaching in a brand new church that my lover had built. “Are we going to have a gala [...] Read more »
Flash: Chasing the Dead
This is my first piece of flash fiction. I wouldn’t call this horror, but this is what came out of me this morning. His brown eyes locked onto me when he walked through the front door, so dark with despair. The harsh glow of the entryway light bleached his olive-toned skin. He was a wasted [...] Read more »