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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Ruminations #4
In which I contemplate the future in the crystal orbs of my daughters eyes. Continue reading
Posted in Essay, Something Else
Tagged christmas, fatherhood, growing up, holidays, Life, Love, parenthood, protect, ruminations, smiles, tears, true love, truth
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Book Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
This is a dystopia that has refused the name. A place where haunter and haunted pass in the street, eyes locked to asphalt, refusing to recognize one another. There is no escape, no grand revolution to see things coolly on … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged british literature, dystopia, friendship, horror, humanity, kazuo ishiguro, literary fiction, Love, Never let me go, sci-fi, science fiction
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An Open Letter to Those You Once Briefly Loved
Dear Pizza Hut, I don’t know what happened, nor do I remember when. But these pleas for attention have to stop “2 mediums for $7.99”, “Free Breadsticks with survey!”. It’s all sad. Look what we had, when we had it, … Continue reading
Book Review: Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century by Sergei Kostin
The book didn’t start off promising. It started in fact with a foreword written by Richard V. Allen. This name meant nothing to me, but when I approach books outside of my usual stalking grounds this tends to be the … Continue reading
The Kringling
What they didn’t tell you about Mall Santa’s is that for years it actually been cheaper to clone them than to barter with the quasi-unions of a bunch of seasonally employable drunks. So every year the MegaMall Corp of America … Continue reading
Argument with Self: 12/23/1016
“Do you really need to have the walls melt here?” “It looks cool.” “Sure, but does it add anything besides that?” “It’s been there for over a year and a half now, taking it out seems wrong.” “That’s mythos. Next.” … Continue reading
Book Review: The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
This is a book about war. There are people, too many people in fact, but only four or five of them feel like they stand through the cardboard test of character. The world is well-worn, colored and sunbaked as it … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged Empire, Epic, Epic Fantasy, fantasy, gods, High Fantasy, Ken Liu, series, Silkpunk, The Grace of Kings, war, YA, young adult
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Book Review: Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
This is a book divided into two parts. A novelette and novella that combine to create something that one can only tenuously describe as ‘whole’. Sure the two parts share the same characters, the same setting, but the feel entirely … Continue reading
Untitled Short Story (Excerpt)
It was 7am and they were eating breakfast. Cheerios if you care. It’s not important, but maybe you’re the type of person who inexplicably links favorite foods to stores of empathy, I’m not here to judge you, I’m here to … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged Cheerios, death, excerpt, Explosions in the sky, No Names, Numbers, ordance, Scarcity, Short Story, Stealth, war, warzone
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Book Review: Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Sweet Tooth is one of those books that felt substantially shorter than it actually was. This probably has to do with the fact that it never truly felt like it picked up whatever thread would have provided a sort of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged british literature, Culture Gap, England, Espionage, Ian McEwan, literary circles, literary fiction, mystery, Spy, Sweet Tooth, writer, writing
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A Land of Rum and Writing 