Fiction

A “long” short story.  Sorry, there aren’t any paragraph divisions, but the original format for which I typed this up (an old ‘zine I used to do called the NCC News, Issue 20) called for it to not be divided as such.  I suppose I should explain that this is not really an original...
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Here’s a little bit of Chapter One, laying out just who the main character is.  Enjoy… The next morning was Monday, Jack’s day off.  He awoke just before noon, alone in his bed and sprawled diagonally in the deep depression that his body had made over the years, as was his custom on any...
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Ah, yes, my first NaNoWriMo win.  I was a substitute teacher in 2003, affording me plenty of time to seriously participate in the “contest”.  This was shortly after the unexpected death of Douglas Adams, hands down one of my favorite authors, so I had endeavored to write a science fiction comedy of sorts. What...
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