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Tag Archives: murder
Book Review: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
I love the Oxford English Dictionary. I first got untethered access to it in college (Hurray for the benefits of ludicrously overpriced education!), now granted this was in attempting to find a ‘unique’ interpretation to a couple of John … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction
Tagged Biography, Book about Books, British History, crime, Dictionary, Humanities, Insanitarium, madness, murder, Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester, words, writing
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Book Review: The Water Knife
I like Paolo Bacigalupi. I like his dogged pursuit of environmentalist sci-fi dystopia. It’s a rare genre and one that it would be all too easy to get drenched in the Holier-Than-Thou attitude that comes with any deeply held conviction … 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
Book Review: People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman by Richard Lloyd Parry
This is a book that is less concerned with the plot than it is its characters. I like this. The plot will move when it’s ready. It has to, especially in non-fiction, but characters take time, require an understanding and … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction, Review
Tagged crime, Japan, journalism, Lucie Blackman, murder, mystery, People Who Eat Darkness, psychopaths, Richard Lloyd Parry, Rippongi, tokyo, true crime
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Complications
The day is shit. It’s the type of day you wake up in the morning, praying, to whatever the hell deity you worship, that it will never come. We should all be so lucky. I own a small store downtown. … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction
Tagged action, adeventure, bad days, conflict, electronics, gunfire, guns, high school, murder, shootout, trenchcoats, what's in the damn box
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The One That Got Away
The heel of her Stilettos catches my eyebrow. It takes off a good chunk of flesh, but nothing irreparable. She’s screaming at me, but her cries fall short with the cloth jammed in her mouth. She’s half naked on the … Continue reading
The Thing About Boys
“Here’s the thing about boys: they die young. They’ve got bad hearts, bad brains, and from the time their balls drop they are on a singular path towards destruction. What is machismo? A disposition to see them die by each … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged battle of the sexes, destruction, did you know cigarette lighters were invented before matches?, fight, gender, killing, loss of purpose, machismo, masculinity, men, murder, power, something that will probably end up somewhere in the second book, women
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A Brush with Strangers
I’ve never been fond of fog. No line of sight, no way of knowing which noises are normal and which ones might be The End hunting for you. That’s the problem with living all the way up here with clouds. … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction
Tagged apocalypse, child's play, childhood, dystopian, family, fiction, fire, fog, forest, home, house on a hill, hunting, murder, raiding party
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A Land of Rum and Writing 