It's time to return to our roots.

Tuber War,
WSU Nexus,
Winter 2010

If this is made into a movie, who should play Billy Beet?

Do pigs make good pets?

Moonbeams and Cheese,
Doorknobs & BodyPaint,
Issue 57, February 2010

I don't know, but if the package includes a fabulous babe, you've got yourself a deal.

Something's fishy in the City of Hair

Fisherman's Splatter,
Clockwise Cat,
Issue 16, March 2010

My simulated city was going well until the corpses started turning up.

This is my Valentine's Day Story

Hefty Bag Gal,
Static Movement,
February 2010

Cooder and Chesty have been on-again-off-again sweathearts for a long time. Everybody wonders if they will ever run away together. This may be the day.

This much is true: We did speak to a technical support person with an Indian accent who said his name was Maverick.

Do Not Attempt to Snapshot the Locals,
Ascent Aspirations,
February 2010

People ask where I get my ideas for stories. I lead a writing workshop once a month. We begin with a twenty minute writing exercise. I hand out a page of lines from poems to serve as prompts. Back in July of 2008, the line, "Do not endeavor to snapshot the locals" from a poem by Michael Dumanis was on the list. It was the inspiration this story.

Cooder leads the lineup in 2010

Arms and the Man,
Static Movement,
January 2010

I try to finish one piece of flash fiction a week. Flash is a story in 1000 words or fewer. For each one, I prepare an illustration, because I need the practice drawing, painting and editing with Photoshop. So far, only my writing group has seen the illustrations. This post is the first time I am including the illustration with the link to the story.

First new story on the blog

The Secretary Winked,
Ascent Aspirations,
Volume 13, Number 6, November/December 2009

We first met Mister Blister in Shred It! Now he's back with a new job and a new secretary.