Category: Stories
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Triangle Story: What’s Fair
What’s Fair by Daniel Bradley “Yep, it’s him,” Fred drawled, dropping the blind and stepping away from the window. Ellen felt an invisible insect the size of her scalp find a grip under her hair, tightening the muscles and sending unfriendly chills down her spine that found access to her gut. “Get back from the…
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Pavlov’s Sleep: An Army Story
County Boy and I had signed up for the same vacation package. Our travel agents were different, but they worked for the same company. That company was a scam, almost as big of a scam as the tattoo artist that gave County Boy the name that would follow him from Alabama all the way to…
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The Winds Out Uranus
Uranus is a special place, that’s what they told me anyway. Initial probes way back when showed promise, like if a population of the galaxy’s nerds could get in there just right they could make a real home
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World-Building Lessons from Tolkien for Sci-Fi Writers
In sci-fi, an author has to show not only cool applications of science in the future, or alternate history, or whatever branch of sci-fi the author is highlighting, the author needs to paint a picture of the evolution of culture. As the writer, you can look at Tolkien’s painstaking work…
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My Journey to Earning 20 Thousand a Month as a Writer
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein So that’s my goal, plain and simple, live life as a writer that earns a nice twenty thousand dollar signs monthly. You could argue that money is a thing and therefore can’t be a…
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Catching Awesome Insights from Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers
Let me tell you about a book, but first let me tell you about why I’m reading it. I write, do you? I write a lot of science fiction. Am I published? Sort of, I have a story on Amazon’s Kindle Vella and a nonfiction dog training book that’s out there as both an ebook…
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Ways Border Collies Can Actually Make the Best Family Dogs
This is Arthur. He’s an adopted Border Collie from the county animal shelter. I rescued him in 2019 on National Dog Day when he was 10 months old. I didn’t know it was National Dog Day, but the coincidence was convenient because the shelter waived a whole bunch of fees and I could actually afford…
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How Writing is Like Painting
Have you ever painted? You stand in front of a blank canvas, and quite often you have no idea what you’re going to create with it. You have some paints, they’re in a cardboard shoe box you keep in the cupboard with some tattered brushes and sponges, a paper plate is your pallet and it’s…
