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The Assistant is Going to Be a Movie!

02 Saturday Sep 2017

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assistant, author, fiction, film, future chronicles, independent film, indie, indigogo, short film, short story

Hi all.  Sorry for the silence.  It’s been a long time since I posted here regularly.  But I wanted to drop in to share the news that my short story The Assistant from The Future Chronicles Special Edition, is being turned into a short film by a production team in Austin.

They are currently raising funds on Indiegogo.  It looks like they’ve hit their original goal, and have set a new goal for the remaining few days.  Stop by and check it out if you’re interested.

I’m beyond excited to see this story turned into a film and extremely honored for the opportunity.

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A Clockwork Heart

11 Monday Jul 2016

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As she lay there, head on his chest, she heard the soft whirl of his artificial heart.  She could hear the mechanical sound of blood being pushed from one chamber to another via the automated valves.

As she listened, she realized how much she missed the sound his heart used to make.  The swoosh of a muscle slightly out of rhythm and the click it made at the end of a beat as it struggled to move the blood from one side to the other.  The sound that indicated a defect that nearly took his life.

She was grateful for his new heart and his continued health.  Yet there was something about prosthetic which made her feel uneasy.  Beyond anything else, she concluded that it must be the way it functioned.  It was smooth and calculated.  It was an even system unmatched by even the healthiest of hearts.

This new organ kept secrets  She missed the way her touch used to cause his heart to race and then listening to it pound and eventually calm after they had been intimate.  She used to be able to read him by listening to that heart.  Now, she could only guess at what he was feeling.

He placed a hand under her chin and lifted her face to his.  At first, she avoided eye contact, feeling guilty for her thoughts and irrationally worried that he’d somehow developed an ability to read her mind.

She couldn’t look away forever, and the longer she tried, the worse she felt.  She met his gaze and peered deep.  As she met his eyes, she instantly knew that he had no inkling of her longing.

The longer she looked, the more she realized she didn’t need his heart to tell her what he felt.  She had his eyes.  Were those to ever be in question, she had his touch.  She had the soft breath from his mouth on her cheek.  She had a sensation that she couldn’t quite name.  A warmth that projected from him to her.  A sense of calm and love that could only be felt with the deepest parts of her.

He leaned and kissed her mouth sweetly.  She let the emotion overwhelm her until her heart was racing enough for the both of them.

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Otherworlders is on Sale

18 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Just wanted to let you all know that I’m running a sale on Otherworlders.  You can pick up a copy on Amazon for .99 for a limited time.  If you haven’t read it yet, now’s a good time to buy it.

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Flash Fiction Friday – Beach Bridge

14 Saturday Feb 2015

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apocalyptic, conspiracy, fff, fiction, flash fiction, flash fiction friday, horde, not-human, post apocalyptic, story, survival, virus

Last Week’s FFF: Wasteland
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This story was set up by author Paul J Willett’s story Beach Road)

My Scars

As she lay in the grass above the abandoned bridge, she followed the distant helicopter with her binoculars. She knew that she had two options. She could either sprint down to the bridge and scream out to it, or let it pass and hope she went unnoticed. The bridge had a gap in the center that was free of cars, and big enough to fit a helicopter. There weren’t any suspension cables or things to impede it’s landing or take off. And with limited access on two sides, and water on the other two, it would be the ideal spot to get picked up.

Just a few months ago, her course of action would have been clear. She would have laid as still as possible and pray that they didn’t see her. Continue reading →

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Otherworlders is a Hot New Release

05 Monday Jan 2015

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amazon, distopia, dystopian, fiction, hot new release, list, new release, rank, science fiction, scifi

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Otherworlders is currently top 50 on Hot New Releases in Dystopian Fiction.  And it’s not technically released yet.  Preorder.  It does have a special, discounted Preorder price.  But I can’t wait to see what happens on launch day 1/18 🙂

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Flash Fiction Friday – The Job

27 Saturday Dec 2014

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assassin, female killer, fiction, flash fiction, read, short story, thriller

Last Week’s FFF: We Are Young

Oregon LDO

Yes, I’m an assassin. There doesn’t tend to be many females in this job. The men that kill are looked at as soldiers in an underground war, or at least action heroes. But the women, well, there must be some tragic origin story there. Shrinks and spectators go-to explanation for my line of work is that I must have suffered some terrible trauma. They assume that I was abused, or witnessed some grizzly crime as a child. But those things didn’t happen. I was never exposed to violence, I wasn’t picked on, and my family, well, they were basically indifferent to my existence. If I had to pinpoint a cause for my specific outlook on life, I’d have to go with that. Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction Friday – We Are Young

19 Friday Dec 2014

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fiction, flash fiction, forever young, short story, steal, story, urban fantasy, youth

Last FFF: Holiday

1942 report

Susan looked out over the ten by ten rows of clear plastic cradles. Inside each was a tightly wrapped new life. Some wriggled while others slept. One of the babies wailed.  Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction Friday – Life

08 Saturday Nov 2014

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fiction, flash fiction, literary, obesity, poetry, prose, short story

I feel like this one might need some explanation.  I had decided to try my hand at literary prose.  Problem is, I don’t know how to write that.  I looked it up, and everything kinda sounded like a poetry slam, but without the rhyming.  It seemed that a message was most important thing, second character, third plot.

So, here it is.  Turns out, I couldn’t get the rhythm without the rhyme.   So my story is basically a long poem.  Enjoy!

 

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When I was a child, I wanted to run and play, explore my world and seize every day. But my mother worried about me out on the streets. She had concerns of where I would go, or who I would meet. Stranger danger, drugs, abductions, no one was to be trusted. Anything could happen out in the world, the news said, and my mother adjusted.

But she worked long nights and on me, couldn’t keep her eye. I understood that she was doing what she needed for us to get by. But still, I was restless, I needed some friends. Other kids played outside, I wasn’t fitting in.

I started looking for comfort, something to ease my mind. I found that distractions were easy to find. Television was my first lover, my original BFF. Continue reading →

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Zombie Crawl Blog Party!

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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Welcome to my blog!  If you’ve com here for the Zombie Crawl, then you’ve likely been at it for days.  If you’re one of my regulars, then, hey look!  It’s a Zombie Crawl!  😀

Here’s the giveaway:  A free audible copy of my book 22 Short Scifi Stories (there’s plenty of dystopia in there).  Just comment and I’ll pick 3 people to give codes to.

For my post, I decided to put up one of my favorite flash fictions that I’ve written. (also, here’s a picture of me as a zombie that I made in Photoshop).

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I thought things would get easier. Truth is, I guess, they never do. Life, death, or whatever you call this, it’s all the same. I should know. I remember everything from my former life. Some say I’m lucky, or, would if they could talk. Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction Friday – Occupied

25 Saturday Oct 2014

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airplane, fiction, flash fiction, horror, read, short story, story, suspense, virus

Last Week’s FFF: The Clone Ranger

I listened to my heart beat in my head and the sound of my own, ragged breathing. Continue reading →

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