Long Time Expat In Japan
If you want to be a beta-reader, please send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll share the rest of the story. — Steve pokes his head into his wife's bedroom and looks at her leg protruding from under the covers. Her varicose veins look worse that he remembers, an artifact of … Continue reading Story Excerpt – Red Rimmed
I just checked out the kickstarter page for the anthology where my first published story will appear. And it looks like we made our target. As of this writing, the kickstarter was at $7,630. The goal was $7,500. So that does it! I made a joke the other day in an earlier post, saying that … Continue reading Thank You !
There are less than three days left ! If you could see your way to backing the kickstarter for my first published story, I will be your best friend forever. Really. For ever and ever ! Check the link here. We're only $705 dollars away (at the time of this writing) from meeting the goal. … Continue reading Please Support !
If you want to be a beta-reader, please send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll share the rest of the story. — "I heard that their religion is based on pure contiguity," the captain said. "Admirable, to be sure, but hardly practical." "We have our own believers in contiguity, captain, using … Continue reading Story Excerpt – Enemy Within
My first short story is going to be published! "Volunteered" -- in which a volunteer lawman transports a murderer to the spaceport on a backwater planet. To get off planet, he will have to run the gauntlet-- has been accepted by Lawless Lands, a short story anthology from Fallstaff Publishing. It is one of twenty … Continue reading Lawless Lands
If you want to be a beta-reader, please send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll share the rest of the story. — Margot was a spritely one hundred twenty five, or so she thought until she cupped her hands under her protruding belly, trying to hold up the weight that felt … Continue reading Story Excerpt – Clarity
Tried it once. Only got about 30k words. This inspired me to write shorter bits. In the last year, I joined the Tokyo Writers Workshop, a great bunch of people who have been kind enough (and appropriately not so kind when necessary) to critique my short stories. I've written and work-shopped a half dozen since … Continue reading NaNoWriMo
This last weekend I joined the Japan Writers Conference at Tokushima University. An annual event, about a hundred educators, journalists, poets, writers, and hangers-on like myself gather at a host university and spend two days giving and participating in presentations, panels, workshops, and readings. It all started on Friday night with a dinner party at … Continue reading Japan Writers Conference
If you want to be a beta-reader, please send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll share the rest of the story. — Matter of Pride I knew he was my Papa from the first time I laid eyes on him. From the time they decanted me, I would follow him around, … Continue reading Story Excerpt – Matter of Pride
If you want to be a beta-reader, please send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll share the rest of the story. — It Shoots Johnny woke to his mother's screams. He stumbled down to the living room, bleary-eyed. Through the large bay window in the living room he could see Boston … Continue reading Story Exerpt – It Shoots
B.S. Donovan 