Category: <span>Saturday Shorts</span>

Saturday Shorts: The End is Only the Beginning

This should have been up yesterday, but I was busy walking across a good part of Manhattan and completely spaced. Whoops! Another little drabble for this week… Somewhat related to the image as well. The End is Only the Beginning I type the last few characters to end a story …

Saturday Shorts: Demon’s Blade, Excerpt #1

Today I’m sharing an excerpt from Demon’s Blade, the first in my YA fantasy trilogy. Demon’s Blade is currently in the revision process, with the goal being to release it in June. Here’s the old, crappy summary of the novel, which will give you a brief idea of the main …

Saturday Shorts: Mist Dancers

Today’s Saturday Short is late, I know. It should have been posted yesterday. I’m pleased to have found a picture to go with it, however, thanks to A.J. Flowers’s blog and book cover resources post. A.J.’s post led me to Pixabay, which offers beautiful images under the CC0 license, meaning …

Saturday Shorts: Valentine

Yes, this should have been posted yesterday. On the bright side, it’s fitting that it come out today, given what today is. And, no, I’m not buying into the commercialism-ridden holiday of red hearts and chocolate. The following is something I wrote some years ago, when I was participating in …

Saturday Shorts: Evidence of AI fantasies

I can’t honestly remember when I first learned about AIs. I’m not speaking of the current, real life attempts to create artificial intelligence; I mean the AIs that are littered across the science fiction genre, the Daneels and Datas and Durandals. Sometime in my past, however, I stumbled across these …

Saturday Shorts: My friend the ghost

If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen this short already. I actually wrote it on Monday in response to a challenge by @WriterEdmonds: a story story in 5 tweets or less, with the prompt “Your best friend is a ghost.” @WriterEdmonds wrote an awesome (and sad) short story …