Snippets – Page 2 – Carma Spence, Writer & Author

Lord Calgon

By Carma SpenceJanuary 15, 2011Novels, Snippetsfantasy, Lord Calgon

Remember these commercials from the 1970s?

Well, that famous “Calgon, take me away!” line inspired a fantasy story I’m working on. Here’s the opening.

Angelica hated Fridays more than any other day of the week. It was always the longest day. She worked for four hours in the morning, went to school in the afternoon, and took care of the twins in the evening. The third chore not only was a strain on her emotional well being, it strained her social life as well.

Friday is the day that people go out to party. It is the prime date day. Its the day that people finally get to relax after a hectic week. But not so for Angelica. Her parents belonged to a club that met every Friday night, and it was Angelica’s job, as eldest child, to take care of Rodney and Rebbecca.
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Human Fax

By Carma SpenceJanuary 1, 2011Short Stories, SnippetsAndrew Carneggie, Arianna Voltar, human fax, Konstantin Feoktistov, science fiction, Suzanne Decarte

Konstantin Feoktistov, a former Soviet cosmonaut, … pointed out that it might be possible someday soon to “download” the entire contents of a human brain into a computer, the way a file on a PC can be transferred onto a floppy disk, and broadcast it to a robot in a remote star system. After a few days or years of exposure to this strange world, the surrogate brain would “fax” its new information back to earth and its original owner.

The Enemy Within

By Carma SpenceDecember 1, 2010Short Stories, Snippetsfantasy, fear, horror

I tend to write a lot about fear. The following snippet or very short story was written in October 1984 and explores how our own mind can be our worst enemy.

Reg & the Dancer

By Carma SpenceNovember 1, 2010Science Fiction, Short Stories, SnippetsPost-Apocalyptic Fiction

I’ve been working on this idea of an angelic dancer who appears to the survivors of an apocalypse to help bring them together and save the human race. Here is a short snippet from one of my drafts.

El Vampiro

By Carma SpenceOctober 1, 2010Snippetshorror, Toltec, vampire, werewolf

I’m still working on this one, and am unsure where I want to take it, but thought it was fun to read, anyway. I first saw the vampire next door when I went to water my Bellflowers last Thursday evening. I remember it had been a long day at work […]

Illegal Swim

By Carma SpenceSeptember 1, 2010Snippetsboys, conversations, ideas, swimming

On October 10, 2002, I overheard a woman telling a story that I thought would make interesting fiction. Apparently someone had called her at work to let her know someone was in her back yard swimming in her pool. No one was supposed to be there, so she called the […]

Adrenaline Junky

By Carma SpenceAugust 15, 2010Snippetsdreams, ghost story, horror, ideas

I just found this little story idea from a dream I had in February 1998. It’s a ghost story about a spirit who feeds off the fear and adrenaline given off by people who are risk takers. He, in life, was a risk taker and died in his early 30s […]

Kicked Out

By Carma SpenceJuly 15, 2010SnippetsChristmas

I was kicked out of my home by my stepmother during Christmas vacation 1984. I was told I was going to move in with my mother my New Year’s day. This vignette is my experience and my imagining of what was going on in my Dad’s mind at the time. […]

Waking Up Blind

By Carma SpenceJuly 1, 2010Snippetsdream, horror, nightmare

Written on September 22, 2000, this vignette was inspired by the line from a Rick Springfield song: “waking up blind with the house on fire.” “I had that dream again,” he said. “I wake up, sitting bolt upright, but I cannot see. First, I hear the crackles, taunting me like […]

The Red House

By Carma SpenceJune 15, 2010Snippetsexercises

This is a response to “The Red House” by Marc Chagall (right). It was an assignment in a creative writing class I took at Santa Rosa Junior College. She stands in the door sill wishing, wanting, but, alas, not having. Beneath the floating oxen, he watches her, wishing, wanting, but, […]

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