Meanwhile…

It’s been way too long since I posted a writing sketch! I actually posted a little bit of this a couple years ago, but I was feeling around for something to work on at the write-in tonight and worked on it some more. I don’t think there will be any more to it. A little over 800 words.

Anyway, it reminded me of how much I like writing this particular pair of characters (if you want to find more of them, you can look here). One of these days I need to sit down and write the Chuck Chaykin novel that is quietly smoldering in a corner of my brain.

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In slightly less ridiculous news, I have just this evening (or last night, rather, as it is after midnight now) finished a new story. I have particular spot in mind for it, but if they don’t want it I’ll start shopping it around. I rather like it. Here is a piece.

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Another day’s efforts. A little over 500 words, loosely inspired by the brilliant Jack Kirby and his Kamandi.

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I went to see The Conspirator (not fantasy, but there were people in very fine hats). It is story of normal people having to put up with the bullshit. Different century. Same nonsense of ordinary citizenry offered up on the altar of political convenience. Nothing has changed.

The movie is quite good, by the way.

Anyway, this is a bit of a fantasy story. I thought, why not a police procedural in a world of gods and magic? The first few hundred words of the nearly 1,400 that I wrote.

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I will post just a portion of this one. It came out to over 1,300 words and is set in the same world as my recently finished and (so far) thrice submitted historical fantasy story, Mercier’s Flight. Maybe I’ll look for a market for this one, though I don’t have the faintest idea where to start. Anyone know of a good historical fantasy war story market?

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I imagine this to be part of my Chuck Chaykin space western universe. Almost 600 words of two-fisted robot-busting action!

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A little something. Will it go anywhere? Who knows! Just about 500 words.

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I utterly failed in my April Fool’s tradition. I had an idea for one, but not in time for me to really execute it properly. Perhaps next year.

In exchange, I offer the beginning of a story I just started. I rather like it. Continue reading

This day in history:

General Loxod and his Elephantine Temporal Phalanx arrive from the 44th Century and begin their brutal invasion. After cutting a devastating swath through Africa and Europe over the course of twelve hours, they vanish as suddenly as they appeared. Relief workers rushing to the war zones find that the invaders took nothing but their victims’ teeth. Their war chant, found burned into many bombed-out structures, was later translated: “Never forgot.”

This day in history, 1863:

President Abraham Lincoln and his crack special forces team  battle the Confedabot, a twenty-foot-tall doomsday machine. Lincoln himself delivers the killing blow to Florida Senator Augustus Maxwell, who had been controlling the Confedabot via psychic broadcasts. Ten miles away, the Gettysburg address is delivered by a projectogram hidden in Ward Hill Lamon’s hat.

Don’t blame me, blame your textbooks.