Heller’s Tale – now on Amazon.com!
Hey all – many many thanks for your patience as I work my way through all the jumbled writing (and non-writing) projects I’ve been juggling these past few months. I’ve […]
An unreasonable idea
Let’s just get this out of the way right off the bat: hovercows. There, I said it. Remember that we’re just spitballing here, so you don’t want to shoot down […]
New Story: The Coal Creek Quarterly
“The only thing that kept Sammy Waxman from sinking beneath the suffocating tide of failure was a short attention span. Sure, he’d been in and out of jail for petty […]
Gone Done and Bought the Farm
By now you should know pretty reliably that when the blog goes quiet for this long, either I’m having a really boring, uneventful time, or life has gotten unusually crazy. […]
More Antarctic Fiction: Tales From the Ice
“It didn’t matter whether you had a story to tell or just wanted to sit back and listen to somebody else’s tale of wonder and woe over a shot of bad whiskey: Summer Camp Lounge was the place to go for stories. “Summer Camp” was a story in itself…
Boy, Are My Arms Tired
I just flew into Dallas Fort Worth, and can honestly say “And boy, are my arms tired.” Because I, you know, flew into Dallas Fort Worth. As mighty and powerful […]
Overwhelmed at EG
Remember that time when you were a kid, and your parents got tired of saying “no” to your constant whining for more ice cream/cake/Pop Rocks/whatever? And they said “Go ahead,” and you did, and you had the most crazy awesome sugar rush on the planet that was the Best Thing In The World until suddenly it wasn’t anymore? That, I think, best captures the feeling I’m coming away with in the wake of my second EG Conference…
New Story: Wenatchee, Last July
“The funny thing was that her real name wasn’t even Kate. I was trying to recall how it all fit together, but I think Kate turned out to have been the name of her daughter. I remembered the look on the officer’s face when he showed me the picture and I called her Kate; made me shudder a little….”
Denver, Sort-of
It’s impossible to stare out at the foothills of the Rockies and not be struck by the impression of the Front Range as an enormous paper shredder that tears the sky […]
Oops…
To be fair, there are things worse than getting your wife’s name wrong. One of them is getting her name wrong on an airline ticket. Another is only discovering this […]
David Pablo Cohn 