Month: December 2016

Pirate’s Luck: Chapter Eight~Twice Cursed

Pain accompanied every movement as Grokin pushed him up the ladder that led to the engine room. Arekan stared stupidly at the long cylinder of the null space displacement unit that ran through the center of the compartment. Except for a few class tours on his home ship, he’d...

#WinterSolstice #Fiction: The Inattentions of Mr. Weatherby

Note: I wrote the following piece for a Fantasy Writer’s.org monthly challenge three years ago. I haven’t found a market for it, so I’m publishing it here for Winter Solstice. There is a little fantasy/science fiction mix here, so bear with me. I’ve always like this story and whenever...

The Art of #Writing: #Editing~Where Your Worst Fears Are Confirmed

You suck. As a writer. No really. That’s what you are thinking as you contemplate the editing of your work. It is where you confront your worst fears as you embark on the most dreaded of writer’s chores. Sometimes my first draft is so utterly cringe worthy, I can...

The #politics of #words: #post-truth,#gaslighting and #cognitivedissonance

Stephen Colbert has a complaint. The the Oxford English Dictionary named “post-truth” its word of the year for 2016. Stephen Colbert said he covered that idea ten years previously in his conlang word “truthiness.” Now unlike other dictionaries, The Oxford English dictionary doesn’t propose to tell you how to...

Pirate’s Luck–Chapter Seven~Hooked

“You’re a damned idiot,” said a familiar voice. “Seven lashes were more than enough and you struck too deep. Now, he’s out of commission for at least a month. What use is he now, eh? I’ll be paying for his upkeep and getting no work out of him.” Arekan...