Hot Pink

So the antibiotics that they’ve given me this time are hot pink. And about the size of my head.

I’ve been dealing with this little thing in my lungs for a few months now, something which has settled there and has been aggravating my asthma — kind of like our current President. But in [...]

Nerddom

Here I am in Ventura County, where I have discovered that Southern California does not know how to cope with water falling from the sky. It’s been raining all day now, and drains are backing up and cars are hydroplaning and people are carrying umbrellas as if they were dirty diapers on the way to [...]

More Out the Gate

Following up to my phenomenal success at selling “Ten Foot Tall He Was, with Eyes of Flame” to Anotherealm, I’ve begun a new round of marketing some of my short stories. I finally received a rejection slip from Cemetery Dance (”Who?” I hear you ask; “One of the top names in horror fiction today,” [...]

Bounded In A Nut Shell

“O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space…”

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, scene ii

It’s been at least twenty years since I last looked through the telescope that my grandfather gave to me for my birthday many many years ago. I still have it, and [...]

The Stars They Sought

This morning, I woke up before the sun had arisen. It was about 5:40. The alarm had not gone off, but I had wanted to wake up this early because I knew that the space shuttle Columbia would be re-entering Earth’s atmosphere just over northern California at about 5:50, and it would be visible as [...]