Reading Time: 3 Mins Subconscious thoughts have been bubbling to the surface today and it’s a strange feeling to stitch them together to try to get a peek inside your own mind. I often choose book quotes and songs to post about that shine a light on how I’m feeling and today they all fell…
Weekday Woolgathering – 6/20/22
Reading Time: 6 Mins You see, I have these thoughts. Creative thoughts. Ideas. Books, stories, characters, all swirling around in competition for space on the blank page in front of me whenever I make the time to sit down and write. Then there are the things that happen to me in real life; those moments…
Review: The Magicians
Reading Time: 2 Mins. I was describing the flavour notes of my current work in progress and this book was mentioned as being in a similar vein. Interested in reading a comp title to what I’m currently working on, I picked it up and was quickly engrossed and absorbed into this new world I did…
Evolved – VSS Weekly 8 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins. The panic in her eyes was so powerful it even made me hold my breath, waiting for what would come next. She stood still as stone. She looked down at the red on her hands, dripping onto her white tennis shoes. This was an unforeseen response to the new code. Not…
Recovery – VSS Weekly 7 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins. “You must come now, and quickly.” Spoken just above a whisper but in the iron halls of prayer they echoed into a scream. This was not a place where words were spoken. The Elder, whose name had fallen out of memory, was the first to break the silence in 15 years….
Passage – VSS Weekly 6 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins It was the smell of our sweat and the dried blood caked on our arms that drew the bugs to us. Up to our waists in stagnant water, packs lifted high above our heads, we tried to ignore them and failed. The flare went up 100 yards in front of us….
Conscience – VSS Weekly 5 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins. It was Tovi’s idea to rob the central account. Leading the Advanced AI software building team gave her the inside track on the soft spots and the access to build in back doors for any that were caught by the team and closed up. It was Liam’s job to clean the…
Tape The Night
Reading Time: 3 Mins. I have had many websites and blogs over the years. When I lived in Japan I created a website and wrote a blog with my then-girlfriend called twocandiansinosaka.com. It chronicled our lives teaching in Japan and actually became a decent resource for those looking to make the move. We made several…
Fly, Shari – VSS Weekly 4 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins. Not all good people are innocent. Take Shari for example. They have a secret. Sometimes you find you’re in a situation where you have to choose between bad and worse. When the story leaks, you can only hope people listen long enough to understand the context. Shari was a fledgling packer…
Priorities – VSS Weekly 3 (400 words)
Reading Time: 2 Mins This was it, there was only moving up from here. His next pay would not only show his new promotion, but this was the last one showing the garnish on his wages from his tax troubles for the past five years. It was time to start saving for something great. Gustav…