The writer was busy writing, as always. Couldn’t afford any distraction. Wouldn’t agree to any speaking engagements, as many writers do.
He would receive copies of his books by courier, and these were piled up, all around him.
He was walled-in by his own books.
Not just busy: booked solid!
For the past month, none of the girls on this online dating site had replied.
He was depressed, now. All alone in this basement he hadn’t left for weeks, he lived on a diet of Cheetos and Pepsi.
A freak virus had wiped out humanity, but he still didn’t know.
“There’s nothing I can do now, the puppies will be born sick, and die within minutes.”
My dog would give birth to nine puppies, and he couldn’t do anything.
But I could.
I sent her into the future, where her puppies could be saved.
A bitch in time saves nine.
Patricia had been plagued by that song all her life. It undermined her reputation at every turn. No one took her seriously.
One day, she decided she’d show them. “Now they’ll have to take me seriously.”
By the time her top came off, everyone was taking her very seriously indeed.
Just a quick note to say that I’m not back on my regular schedule, yet. I got an idea for a story, so I put it up. If I find that more ideas start coming, I might start accumulating a batch and restart my old schedule. For now, enjoy this new story, as well as the archives.
People visit Luna City all the time.
I arrived, did my business. Then took the shuttle headed back to New York.
The shuttle dematerialized into tachyons, and was shot at the Earth.
The shuttle rematerialized before reaching its destination.
If you get caught between the Moon and New York City…
After more than a week without any stories, I’ve come to the conclusion that I wasn’t ready to come back to my previous schedule yet. The holiday hiatus wasn’t enough to recharge my creative batteries.
My day job’s been draining my creativity, and coming up with new ideas for stories has become harder and harder over time, to the point where posting every day became a chore.
I still enjoy writing these stories, though, so I’m not closing this place down. I just won’t be posting daily for a while. If I come back to a regular schedule at some point, it probably won’t be daily, at least not until I’ve accumulated a backlog of stories that are ready for publication.
I still want to do a community site based around 50-word stories. If you know a good CMS I could install and configure easily to build a community site with minimal hassle, please leave your suggestion in the comments to this post. I’ve been looking into Joomla, but I find it overly complicated for what I want to do, and it makes it too hard for me to mould it into the site I’m trying to build. Maybe I’m just being lazy.
Basically, I aim to build something like ficlets, but with the 50-word concept instead of a character limit, and with the idea that each story be complete (and not just a fragment of a story, like it was with ficlets) while still providing the possibility to write sequels and prequels.
That’s it for now. I hope to post new stories sporadically until I can catch my breath again.