These Old Games

I want to explain some of the fantastic and mudune items that appear in my last post . This piece felt like a bit of Ready Player One. There...

My wife and I were driving for the sake of getting out of the house. We were rolling through East Amherst, NY. My wife is recovering from ar...

To keep the ball rolling, sometimes you need to cut parts out.  I have a file where I keep text that I find particularly interesting but...

Back in 1996, I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing. The whole world was one big crazy snarl and I couldn’t figure any of it out. ...

When turned 11 or 12, my little sister gave me a hamster for my birthday. Over the years, he had a dozen different names. The last one was...

Molly’s husband asked if they had a thermometer because he wasn’t feeling well. Her initial answer was “I am feeding two babies because I ...

This section is for rough works, slightly better than drafts, but still incomplete experiments. As experimental works, they should not be ta...

Again, this is a semi-fictional story about my time in high school. All of the named people are real, some of the facts are real, but the ...

This is work of fiction. It is a blending of real events, people and places. Every event occurred, but not in the order presented. Without...

This was an assignment for a class on Argentina, taught in English. The requirement was to create a tango, utilizing Spanish phrases. What...

I don’t do prose, poetry, or song.  Not even on free beer and open mic night.  At church, people move away when I sing.  But I’ll giv...

I have written 100+ History papers in the past 6 semesters. I have collected some advice from my professors and personal experience, which I...

As a child, my favorite "toy" was a black corduroy tuxedo. It must have been a hand-me-down from lord knows who. It had black pant...

When the semester ends, I start losing my writing skills. While writing science fiction and fantasy is wildly different than writing about h...

Nothing is ever perfect, until it is. Within the first 24 hours of dating my wife, I did something unusual that has been a part of our l...

It started when Kitty wanted to ride horses. So one cold winter day, we were off to ride horses on a whim. Her horse was named Star and mi...

In the early 1990's, I had a "job" watching the computer rooms at my school. I didn't take much effort, either it was nail...

Many years ago, I rented an apartment in West Seneca. It was far too expensive and way too small. While it wasn't awful, it was really m...

In my latest work, so far unnamed, the heroes are bound for the Eighth Planet. The ship's AI has named this planet Urbian-Adams for the ...

This document was written as 3 character study, where 2 of the characters are children. The main intent was to create a realistic seeming...