The first Kindle came out in 2007. Pricey little gadgets. Still, I’d like to have one. But, I can’t just drop, what was it, nearly 400 bucks on a device my family would see as a geek’s toy.
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I wish I had a photo of the Pot and the Hurricane Lamp, sitting side by side on an equally antique table in the living room with the very fake fireplace. I have posted a cell phone photo of one of my ‘potted’ plants instead. [...] Okay, alright, Eternal Press, a division of Damnation Books, asked to read a novel I wrote called If I Should Die. Late last week, they sent me a contract. The title is on the release schedule for November 2010. I can hardly wait to get into the editing process. I wonder what the cover art will be. [...] Eyes do some incredible things, especially in fiction. I’ve read about eyes falling upon, dropping, dragging, darting, skimming, rolling up and back, fluttering, blinking, and closing. Eyes pop, glow, screw up, screw up to the sun, squint, and are pressed upon by darkness. [...] “You know, Jade,” she began as she set the cutting board in the sink. “I get it more than you’ll ever know.” A tiny wave of envy swept through Tracy’s recovering body. She reached for her prescription bottle and clutched it tight to her chest. “More than you know.” Becca Butcher brings us a Flash Fiction Friday. This came about when I uploaded a photo of some deer that hang around my Montana home. They ate all of the plums from the North Yard, then they ate the pumpkins from Halloween and now they have to stand on their hind legs to reach what ever it is on our tree in the North yard. The photo was taken through our double paned window and if you can manipulate it you will see she has snow on her back. [...] I troll the news and reference books for seeds of horrid plot lines and there are plenty of depraved things going on to stock my shelves with plots and characters. [...] Negative spaces enhance the objects we see, build the characters we become, combine and contrast with reality. [...] In a nut-shell, and you need to be a little nuts to do this, you start with word one on the first day of the month, end by wrapping up the novel toward the end of the month with at least 50K words, verify your word count and collect bragging rights and a certificate online for your printing pleasure. [...] Here’s how it went, see, I was minding my own business, she plops down with a bowl of what smelled like sour milk and scared me. I recovered and was getting ready to slink off to another room when suddenly she let out a shriek that could have shattered glass. [...] |
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