See?

Toldja I'd be back.

I'm working on several stories right now, long and short. Short story of the moment is either horror or perhaps black comedy. I'm hoping to get that done in a week or so. Long fiction is alternately real-world ('adult contemporary' -- is that the bogus term for it?) or perhaps horror. Maybe a bit of both.

Also, I'm going to throw a few stories the New Yorker's way. Why not? I haven't done that in awhile. Keep'em entertained.

It's a challenge being noticed when you're in Flyover Country (e.g., that vast expanse of land between New York and LA). Sue me, I live in the Midwest, in Chicago.

I'm not doing National Novel-Writing Month this year, after having played a few times at that in previous years, completing books in a month's time. It's doable, and I've done it, and while it's fun having a kind of deadline gnawing at your leg a bit, I have nothing to prove where that is concerned, so I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year, and never will again.

I'll move at my usual choo-choo train locomotive pace, racing along, banging out words, and hopefully folks will read them.

If you're really nice, I'll even put some of those stories here, although I haven't decided what, yet, will go here. You'll know. I'll preface the subject line with "Fiction:" so there's no uncertainty.

And if you try to steal my story, I'll take your thumbs, simple as that.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Using "wicked" in the old-school way, like "Damn, that was totally wicked, Dude!" Like "gnarly" only more so. More to come....

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."
--Japanese Proverb