The knight dreamt of home: vast oceans of grass rippling in unfelt breezes, the whisper of leaves, the background hiss of his augmentation cloud's comm cycles. A castle suspended in the air winked reflected sunlight from crystal windows. Man's first sun lay low to the horizon, a bulging red oval nearly kissing [...]
Haircut today. Then judo. Both went well.
Now I'm going to do some writing. Here's a sample from my current project, Salyx:
There was an upright piano, a slab of black lacquered wood and polished brass, stationed in the center of a navy-blue disc of rug woven with a fine filigree of white lines. [...]
I've been busy with writing lately; the Trees story ("Can't See the Stars for the Trees" or whatever I'm currently calling it), so posting here has been a little sporadic. Here's a snippet from the story:
Right from the start, the boy was a godsend.
Toi and Chadow found him one evening, the sun just beginning [...]
One-sentence synopses for projects I'm working on.
Earth Fleet
A mysteriously empty Earth serves as backdrop and catalyst to a final, apocalyptic battle between two warring human civilizations.
The Coldest War
An army of ghosts, resurrected in the outer solar system, battles against incursions from the living in the inner system and a swarm of alien ghosts from interstellar [...]
Or they can be, anyways.
I'm working on expanding and completing the first draft of a story I started in June. It's set on a slice of a Dyson shell made of trees woven into each others' root systems, wrapped around a star and sent on its way into the intergalactic dark. No one [...]
It's important to open with a strong hook, especially in a short story. I did fifteen short stories in the month of May, for a challenge on Forward Motion, a website for writers. Here are the openers (ie, the first paragraphs) from thirteen of them. Any of them make you want to [...]
Quoth the Generator: The story's protaganist is female and a clerk. A gun plays a significant part in the story. The story is set in a rainstorm in the far future. The story is about revenge.
Title: Two Dragons
1300 words
Excerpt:
Slowly she came into focus, there in my drowsy headspace: blonde hair pulled back [...]
…in my FM Writers challenge is set in the far future. How far? About seven and a half billion years, I think.
The Parley (you'll need the password; it's earth <— highlight to read .
After falling a little behind (I was doing a story every second day; it was six days since the previous one) I sat down and did up a new story last night. The generator gave me The theme of this story: tragic mystery. The main characters: confused cab driver and pious rogue. The start [...]
So far I have five stories out of the ten I've said I would do this month. Tonight or tomorrow I'll be doing another one.
Probably tomorrow, since I'm mildly hooked on CSI, and it's a new one tonight.
Here's a snippet from the latest story, "Star Light, Star Bright":
If the hot worlds shuffling their feet [...]
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