For Fiction Friday this year, I'd like to play around with a new setting or character every month. Chances are this will settle in to a rotating band of settings that I'll return to again and again, just to play around with various aspects of writing. One of the things that have been setting me … Continue reading (Fiction Friday) Veniamin Kovalenko: Werebear Detective
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(Fiction) Sergei & Bunkin #1: The Negotiation
"I do know ASL, so it's not necessary for you to be here." The man sitting on the other side of the booth, tall and lithe and poured into a suit it would have taken Bunkin two months to afford, stared with a raised eyebrow. He brought his hands together, sleeves pulling back to show … Continue reading (Fiction) Sergei & Bunkin #1: The Negotiation
(Friday Fiction) A Formal Introduction
This week I wanted to focus more on a graceful exit for my stories. A lot of them just stop, or I hastily construct a way for things to end when I feel the need to wrap things up. To be honest, it's kind of sloppy and I need to get better at it. Most … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) A Formal Introduction
(Friday Fiction) The Only Winning Move
I keep thinking about the Br'er idea -- I think it's a potent one that could be used to explore a lot of different themes floating in my head about the black experience. I just need to drill down into it and find out where the trouble spots are; I understand not everything is going … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) The Only Winning Move
(Friday Fiction) A Birthday of Legend
A dear friend of mine celebrated his birthday a week or two ago, and I offered him a quick short story as an impromptu present. As usual, it took me a little longer than I would have liked to finish it up, but here it is! Crux is preparing for a nice, quiet birthday celebration; … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) A Birthday of Legend
(Monday Fiction) A Letter to Puxineathas Goodfellow (2)
I'm not going to lie -- the only thing more fun than writing that letter from Pux was researching more about gnomes as they're settled in Pathfinder. The more I learn about gnomes, the more I feel like I should play them more. This will probably upset My Husband, The Dragon to hear. But the … Continue reading (Monday Fiction) A Letter to Puxineathas Goodfellow (2)
(Friday Fiction) A Letter to Malcolm Williams
I didn't manage to put together a letter in time last week, so we'll have to miss one missive unfortunately. The previous letter was...something I wasn't quite happy with. I wanted to write it in the voice of someone who just wasn't used to long, written correspondence but I wanted to make it engaging at the … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) A Letter to Malcolm Williams
(Friday Fiction) A Letter to Puxineathas Goodfellow
In order to get back into Friday Fiction, I thought I would try a short series of letters between an inner-city blerd and a gnome hailing from a Pathfinder-like fantasy realm -- or at least someone pretending to be one. I love epistolary fiction, and this makes for a pretty decent exercise in nailing the … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) A Letter to Puxineathas Goodfellow
(Friday Fiction) Changeling: The Talk
Our protagonist gets a name! I'm still feeling out how being a Changeling would feel in inner-city Baltimore. I think there's something distinctive about the idea and I'd love to try and capture it. Here, Mr. Foster takes our narrator to McDonald's for an explanation of what's going on. Or not. I don't know if … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) Changeling: The Talk
(Friday Fiction) X-Men: A Tale of Two Kitties
(Continuing my little snippets of fiction imagining Beast settling in at the Jean Grey School, because the news from Marvel coming out of Comic-Con sounded really really bad for our merry band of mutants. While the X-Men line has...maybe seven titles out right now, many of them will be taking a hiatus once Civil War … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) X-Men: A Tale of Two Kitties
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 