“A man’s subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
P. G. Wodehouse
Apr
21
Got the new book back from the editor so now I just have to review which stories stay and which stories go and, by far the most annoying part, what order they appear in. I will be sandwiching about 50 total stories in between two longer Nap Lapkin adventures. He’s far and away my favorite […]
Apr
24
“Did I ever tell you how we met?” his son whispered. His father squeezed his son’s hand and slowly shook his head. “We met at a dance club … in New York City. Neither of us had a place to stay so we were both looking for someone to crash with.” His son’s voice was […]
Apr
22
If I’m being completely honest most of what I write is self-indulgent. If you’re a regular you’ve come to expect it but if for some reason this happens to be the first time you’ve stumbled upon this site I just want to preface everything below with the following; this one is particularly self-indulgent. But it […]
Apr
21
This story is set in 2018 but I’d like you to approach it as if it’s the 2018 we imagined in 2002 and not the 2018 we currently reside in. Helping in this effort will be the fact that the technology described does not currently exist but you sure as hell would have had no […]
Apr
20
David Grey owns the diner. It was a slow day so he told the waitress she could leave early, which left him alone to both work the counter and cook the food. David looks surprisingly similar to Dennis Quaid … but this is not his story. Not David’s and certainly not Dennis Quaids’. How I […]
Apr
18
A little bias is to be expected when you’re hearing stories about artificial intelligence taking over and getting rid of humans. Films make it very clear the hellish world it would become if the machines ever usurped us. The Terminator for instance. Most humans believe this to be a pretty fair appraisal of how the […]
