Dec
31
Since When Aren’t Illegal Immigrants Criminals?
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Dumbest fucking article I’ve read this week brought to you today from the Houston Chronicle.
I read an article this morning from the Houston Chronicle about Illegal Immigrants. The article was a story about a rumor in the Houston area that the INS is getting ready to hit worksites and round up all Illegals and this [...]
Dec
31
Untitled Novel Preface
The boys were standing shoulder to shoulder in an act of defiance against the bully towering menacingly in front of them. This particular bully was Danny Concannon, no one in fifth grade had ever stood up to Danny before and children all around the playground stopped what they were doing to watch.
Alec wasn’t [...]
Dec
31
Untitled Novel
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PrefaceA rough, first draft of the preface.
Preface posted
I’ve finally psoted something from this work. Originally this part of the story was a part of chapter one but at that time the story was going to be directly linear. I’ve since changed my mind about that and I’m just going to drop some foreshadowing into the [...]
Dec
31
The first chapter, Innocence, is now available! You can download the PDF by clicking on the thumbnail above. The chapters below will be posted as I get a chance.
Love
A Darkness Descends
The Embrace
Transformation
Pandora’s Problem
I find this type of writing to be an interesting excercise. It’s written in a sort of epistolary format, specifically a young woman’s [...]
Dec
31
The Book of Repudiations
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As it was told to Kareem the Janitor by a drunken Japanese Sushi Chef.
A Great sign was seen in Heaven1: a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head, a crown of twelve stars.
Beneath this rather large and impeccably well lit but most assuredly gaudy billboard advertisement [...]
Dec
31
Bob
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“But Ma’am, surely you can see the need people have for the Foonifetm in their lives!” Bob stated in a pleasant tone while gesturing toward his traveling sales case filled with odd looking multi-colored utinsels.
Sir…I’m sorry but that is just the dumbest thing I’ve ever head of.” The cafeteria manager said in her southern twang. [...]
Dec
31
Brown Bag and a Can of Peas
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an epic short storybyJohn Eddy
[Abridged Version]
Chapter One
Once upon a time in a land that exists only in the farthest corners of the minds of orangutans with Down Syndrome, there was a banana. It was yellow and delicious. A banana like no other, this banana could talk – And talk it did.
Orangutans could have conversations with [...]