Here’s a limerick I wrote during the 1984/1985 school year that was inspired by a pen. The pen is a remarkable thing, you know. It writes with such an easy flow. The colours it comes in are endless. The things you can do, tremendous. There are even pens that glow, […]
My cat D.B. (short for Dust Ball) and I were so close it was like he was my familiar. He seemed to know when I needed him near. He’d recognize my car and come running home. He was a great little black and white cat that I still miss. This […]
This is still a work in progress, but I thought it’d be nice to share with you the prologue I have so far for Lord Vayne. Flight Somewhere, in a seldom-traveled quadrant of a galaxy, a star exploded, sending waves of radiation out and away. The Tengali raced at full […]
I once had a dream about a strange kind of genetic vampire. I’m now working on a story based on that dream. Here’ a first draft of the beginning. Daniël looked over at the remains of his lover, lying in the hotel bed, and wondered, “Would it ever stop?” Like […]
Written in 1983. Shadows of images. Images of shadows. Ghost of my nightmare. Monster of my dream. Who are you who hides in my closet? Why do you stalk me? My veins are filled with fear of you. But then, who is the fear-filled one? Is it I? Or is […]
I found these quotes for a story I’m working on. They’re pretty cool, so I thought I’d share. “We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers.” ~ Henry D. Thoreau “… Plato, who described how in dreams, ‘when the gentler part […]
Written sometime during the 1980/81 school year. Boredom escaping from boredom fleeting images Adventures, Fantasies Images Fading . . . Fading . . . Fading . . . . The Death of a Daydream.
For a story I’m working on, I came up with the following concept about magic: There are two kinds of spells – generic and fingerprinted. Only the one who cast the spell can remove a fingerprinted spell. There are only two reasons to cast a fingerprinted spell – you are […]
