And here's the next little bit. Still figuring out the setting while trying to make connections between Greggory's experience and experiences I've had being a "black face in a white space". This one stems from SO MANY TIMES being the only black guy with the feeling of "you don't belong here" heavy in the air. … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) Br’ers – Break
Category: Thursday Prompt
Thursday Prompt: The Collector
(It's been a while since I've done one of these, and I really wanted to get back into it. It helps me quite a bit with writing to be able to just bang something out between short stories or blog entries or whatever. Sort of a palate cleanser, or a chance to try something new. … Continue reading Thursday Prompt: The Collector
Thursday Prompt: The Future
(Author's Note: This little bit of fiction doesn't really fit within any of the worlds that I regularly write about, but I have to admit that the main character feels an awful lot like Robert, the main character for Bird. I wanted to capture a sense of frustrated pessimism, but built on a pragmatic basis. I … Continue reading Thursday Prompt: The Future
Fiction from the Chimeral World: Monstrous
(This is the latest bit of fiction for the Thursday Prompt published by the Furry Writers' Guild. One of these days, I'll remember to actually link to the prompt over on FurAffinity, but for now you'll just have to take my word that it exists and that more people do it than just me. The … Continue reading Fiction from the Chimeral World: Monstrous
Sleepwalkers Fiction: The Balance
Prescott's ear twitched as he looked down at the paper before him. He had written words and numbers on it, all laid out in a nice little chart. The source of income or expense in the far left column, and money going into his bank account in the middle one. At the far end went … Continue reading Sleepwalkers Fiction: The Balance
Short Fiction: No Man’s Land
(This is what I came up with for a Thursday prompt two weeks ago, boundaries. I wanted to return to Matthew from my previous story and see how he was doing after the transformation was complete. This story doesn't end so much as stop, and I'll need to take a couple more stories to focus specifically on … Continue reading Short Fiction: No Man’s Land