Please consider becoming a patron. A discussion concerning the restrictions on property ownership devolves into a rock common to two property lines and then devolves further into this song of praise: That night I imagined her body, in its full glory, without even trying to stop the image from coming into my consciousness. Hers was […]
In Three Parts Part One: The Corner Office Please consider becoming a patron. Alta Vista did not, as is commonly thought, simply fold or become absorbed into a larger tech company. It morphed, with offices in New York, into an independent research company, mostly for hire by firms looking for a competitive edge against a […]
Please consider becoming a patron. An excerpt: “How do you become an adviser to the King?” I asked. “Blood relationships, on the one hand,” he said. “And financial relationships, on the other hand. The same way one becomes king to begin with.” I stopped short again. “This is not what we were taught as children.” […]
A Life in The Day Please consider becoming a patron. An Homage to Ingmar Bergman “Bertram?” the vicar peeked around the door, scanning each hospital bed for his quarry. “Bertram?” Three beds were empty; the fourth held a sleeping figure. Bertram was laid out on his back, angled by the cruelty of hospital beds, and […]
In which our intrepid hero goes in search of supplies and finds, instead, a pub. As always, please consider becoming a patron. “Lily,” the beer made me say, “is making things happen to me.” “Lily,” said her uncle, “Lily is a catalyst.” “A catalyst?” “A catalyst,” he said. “Your character is responding to her, […]
Finally, people get killed, and we learn the protagonist’s name and why he’s leaving town. Please consider becoming a patron. An excerpt: An army had broken through from the east two years ago. They did not destroy crops or buildings. They did murder people. They murdered brutally the leaders of the people. I had never […]
In this week’s episode, our hero learns that every good civilization is burdened by a sclerotic bureaucracy. As always, please consider becoming a patron. An excerpt: “I was more struck,” Lily’s uncle resumed, “that he calls them the Brother and the Sister.” “Why does that strike you?” Lily’s father asked. “Because it’s latterly nonsense,” Lily’s […]
Our protagonist, after experiencing a little more of Lily’s family, reacts in the only way he knows how: he drinks too much. Please consider becoming a patron. An excerpt: As for me, I was neither happy nor unhappy to leave Market Makers. The patronage was all fixed, and I was an outsider: they were there […]
A quick side-by-side comparison. In service of the world; you’re welcome. In all seriousness, demonstrating how the quality of your recording equipment really does make a subtle, but perceptible difference in your presentation of yourself.
Please consider becoming a patron, which you can do at my Patreon site. An excerpt: All the twelves saw their mighty enemy for the first time under the light of day without the distance of the heights of mountains intervening. They were a host, truly, a horde. They were like flies, swarming, without sense or […]
Visit my Patreon page for more stories and much more content. An excerpt: Fear, I have discovered, lays a foundation for fear. The entire day had already been muted fear under bright sunshine. Now I was bound by command to encounter the dark father of Lily, the husband of the goddess-mother, a man of enormous […]
One of the main characters of The Primal Flowers describes, in brief, a lengthy journey he took in behalf of his brother. An excerpt: Please visit my Patreon page, and consider becoming a patron for the serial production of my forthcoming novel, The Primal Flower. […] Bandits, highwaymen, and robbers are of a sort […]
