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. — On the kitchen table was a dull gray arthropod the size of a mature Pit Bull Terrier. “Ginny Murphy,” I said. “Get here right now and apply this strip … Continue reading Story Excerpt – Springtails
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
Book Review Best American Mystery Stories - 2015 Edited by James Patterson I'm in short story mode. Been that way for a year or so. I love to read novels, of course. The short story is arguably harder. You have only a few thousand words, while a novel ten times that. You have to be … Continue reading Book Review – Best American Mystery Stories – 2015
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
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
More figurative pen to paper. 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. --- Old Enough She was twenty three, and I was two hundred ninety one. We met in the ring city above Solaris, the planet where … Continue reading Story Exerpt – Old Enough
B.S. Donovan 