For those of you who know me, I tend to overthink things. (For those of you who don’t know me- trust me on this, I overthink things.) The only reason “A Year Among Stars” saw the light of day was because it had been several years since I’d challenged myself to write a story in […]
Read More An adventure in accidental publishingAs some of you know, I have an ongoing love for FlashFiction aka Fiction you can read in a flash – I’ve written some that are as short as a tweet, and some up to 500 words. In the world of FlashFiction contests – It’s not just writing, it’s a puzzle, it’s trying to tell […]
Read More Indiglow – Written for ThursThreads – 9th Anniversary EditionWow. This year has really vanished . Things have been interesting lately. I’ve been working on multiple projects – First, there was the Christmas Anthology that was– then there was the Anthology that wasn’t. Communications kinda fell apart and I was writing and working but I got forgotten. Yeah- that happens. So, I ended up […]
Read More A Year Among The Stars – UpdateAs you may know – I love flash fiction. The challenge is to write enough to tell a good story with a limited number of words (in this case 100-250 words) – The prompt ‘Can you give me an example – what follows Is my entry – Don’t talk to strangers “Hello, you’re on the […]
Read More Flash FictionI’m attending a writer’s retreat this weekend and one of the exercises for overcoming writer’s block was to look at a picture and put an element from the picture into your story – you don’t need to include it – but I think I’ll keep it… My picture prompt was a kitten… and this was […]
Read More A Year Among the Stars – AllegoryEvery week Siobhan Muir runs #ThursThreads – a Flash fiction contest that runs from 7 AM Time to 8 PM Mountain Time. The prompt is chosen from a line from the previous week’s winning tale, and you must include the prompt in the story – you cannot change the tense and the only thing you […]
Read More This week’s Thursday’s Threads entryNovember 29th, 2552 – Clash of the Titans Escape Pilot Kat James Reporting Today started out badly, we jumped into one of the places where the fleet might have been only to find a lot of wreckage and no sign of our people. The wreckage was a combination of Parataph and Ani craft with a […]
Read More 334-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsNovember 21st, 2552 – Diplomacy Escape Pilot Kat James Reporting Watching the face-off yielded very few answers, other than the fact that the attacking fleet were allied to the Ani, who’d decided that the Parataph were to blame for the almost destruction of the Ani. The fact that the remnants of the Ani were in […]
Read More 326-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsNovember 19th, 2552 – The sign of the bobble-headed lizard Escape Pilot Kat James Reporting Today Lil’bit acted as a compass directing me through the world between regular space and the void. I’m not sure exactly where he was heading but he took me through the turns and eddies of space leading me towards an […]
Read More 324-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsNovember 12th, 2552 – Mechanic Convict Consriptee Kat James Reporting Today I was elevated from cleaning crew to mechanic when one of the doors stuck and I was able to not only fix it but augment its functionality. As near as I can tell the Parataph never saw a need for hydraulic lifts on doors […]
Read More 317-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the Stars