Wednesday, July 16, 2025 Hello, everyone. If you hoped the “Re-Inventionator” androids would be back… (It’s okay to hear that in Arnold’s voice if you want.) Then you’re in luck. When life blocks our path with changes, some people shift gears and change lanes accordingly — those differences having little impact on the road they’re … More Re-Inventionators: Riding Waves of Change with John W. Howell
Sunday, May 18, 2025 Welcome, to my humble sanctuary. This is not a poem — I don’t write poetry. Maybe a rhyme or if I put my mind to it, an occasional limerick, but I wouldn’t even know how to begin a proper poem. It’s not a story either… It just is what it is. … More The Manifest Doors — #TDWC
Saturday, December 7, 2024 Hello, all. I hope you’ve had a great week. I’m dusting off another song-inspired short story. This one is from 2023. The cheerfulness of the song is not like my story — except in the twisting way my brain works. It rather amused me. Call it dark humor. Besides, I couldn’t … More Song-spiration Saturday — It’s My Job
Saturday, August 31, 2024 Welcome to my sanctuary. Pull up a chair. The sanctuary may be found in a diesel-punk train station with an outrageous flapper named Lulu. It might also be at a steampunk submarine port, with an alchemist named Cornelis. Or it might even be at a crossroads in a rural Mississippi town … More End of Summer Memories with Brother Love
Saturday, July 22, 2023 Hello, everyone. This is a rather long episode, although it’s still under 2,500 words. I didn’t want to split it, because we’re going to be hanging on the cliff about Donny Metatron for long enough as it is. So, there’s not much preamble today. Fellow blogger, Fraggle. posted a photo that inspired me, … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 19, Featuring Fraggle
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 Hello, all. I hope your week has been good so far. Today, I have another short story for Dan Antion’s Thursday Doors Writing Challenge. This time I used one of the images I submitted as inspiration to other writers. The mood of my background music is nothing like my story, but … More Wednesday Writing & #ThursdayDoors Writing Challenge — It’s My Job
Saturday, April 1, 2023 Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my new, spontaneously written, reader-inspired serial, Atonement in Zugzwang. If you missed the beginning of this serial, or if you need to refresh your memory about where it began, click here for Episode 1. Each week I feature the person who provided random reader things that … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 6, Featuring Fraggle
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 Welcome to my sanctuary. I hope everyone is safe, warm, and dry. Sit back, have a cup of coffee, a snack, or whatever pleases you. There aren’t any calories here! Now, I invite you to enter my “Atonement universe” for this story I wrote back in 2018. I never furthered one … More Wednesday Writing — an Atonement TN Short Story
Seances, a psychic medium, warnings from a ghost, a manipulative fiancé, a woman who can’t go home, an older woman who might lose her job and home, a freakishly strong woman with a soul tie to an evil entity. All these things and people come together in 1920s Coral Gables, Florida. … More Spook-tober Snippet: A Peril in Ectoplasm, #Halloween
Seances, a psychic medium, warnings from a ghost, a manipulative fiancé, a woman who can’t go home, an older woman who might lose her job and home, a freakishly strong woman with a soul tie to an evil entity. All these things and people come together in 1920s Coral Gables, Florida. … More Spook-tober Shorts — Snippet: A Peril in Ectoplasm, #NewBook #Halloween
Saturday, September 24, 2022 Welcome to my sanctuary. You’re in a safe place. When I started this series of short stories, I had asked readers to send images I would use to spontaneously inspire the tales. Of course, I got off track, when inspiration flew under my nose. I read Kerfe‘s beautiful poem and asked … More Shorts for the Weekend — Red Phoenix, featuring Kerfe
Thursday, September 1, 2022 Join me, and the lovely MuMu in announcing her human’s new book. Congratulations to Dan Antion on the second in his “Dreamers Alliance” trilogy. The Evil You Choose picks up where Knuckleheads left off. There’s no “evil” in choosing this book. Okay, okay… you know I couldn’t resist that. Click over to No Facilities … More The Evil You Choose – #NewBook from Dan Antion
Saturday, February 9, 2018 Diana Wallace Peach started a monthly feature at her blog, Myths of the Mirror. I caved into the temptation to play along. Click the link to learn more. Each month, Diana issues an image as a prompt. This time, my response is a twofer! My first response is my alteration of … More Atonement Ganesha
Saturday, January 5, 2018 I had the next episode of Copper, the Alchemist, and the Woman in Trousers ready to post today. Instead, we’re visiting Atonement, TN. Why? Diana Wallace Peach started a new monthly feature at her blog, Myths of the Mirror. I caved into the temptation to play along. Click the link to … More Atonement TN Meets the Ice Dragon
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