The Mountain came to me. I hiked it. Nobody won.
2016 – Check Please
The year was not boring. Not at all.
Puppies, Pain, and Parallel Universes
Puppies don’t know a thing about advanced physics. All they know is everything’s exactly the way it is and always has been.
Do You See What I See?
I used to want to see the future. What do you do when it looks like a train going off the rails?
Welcome to the Smoke Channel
Coming this Spring, the all-new Smoke Channel!
The Mirror Test – Part 2
Corey thinks he’s dreaming, but it’s way worse than that.
The Mirror Test – Part 1
What if you woke up in the middle of your day, in the middle of an email, in the middle of a life that wasn’t yours?
Alopecia – Learning to Shed My Skin (and Hair)
Our personal image is a funny thing. In this self obsessed culture we have today you find countless examples of personal display leading you to conclude we live in a proto-narcissistic society. Hell, we invented a stick to make it easier to take pictures of us in front of our favorite whatever. Those without sight […]
The Question – a short story
This week I’m trying something new. Here’s a short(ish) story I wrote. I think of these types of scenarios all the time, big what-ifs. I then torture my wife with it to see if it’s sufficiently interesting. She’s out of town; maybe I should have waited. Enjoy.
To a shampoo bottle sitting idle – a poem
As someone who suffers alopecia areata I’m somewhat ambivalent about hair. While showering yesterday, rubbing bar soap on my skull, I peered into the alcove and spied my abandoned shampoo bottle. Having recently enjoyed a long stint with hair, I didn’t have the heart to toss it yet.
Time Travel Will Kill You – Probably
Don’t get me wrong; I love time travel. It’s my single most favorite form of science fiction, right next to multiverse stories. I’m fascinated with the idea of being witness to the past, or finding out how we fare in the future. But as much as I indulge myself and feast on the tasty morsels of Back […]
The Thing About DNA
Robert Heinlein espoused the belief that our genes belong to the entire human race, not just to ourselves. It’s true and I’ll tell you why. Our genes are a gift to us from someone else. We in turn give them to another, proof our genes aren’t really ours in the classical sense. We’re merely the […]