He doesn’t want to be a hero … he just ends up in the right place at the right time and can’t help himself. He’s introverted and doesn’t like a fuss being made about him. He’s quiet.
He has long black hair and almost white blue eyes that have been augmented to see a broader spectrum of light that normal people.
He’s freakishly tall because of his alien lineage.
I have this idea for a time travel Christmas story. It is still in the concept formation stages, but I have an opening I’d like to share with you …. Gabriel, the lead character, is obsessed with going back in time to see Christ’s birth in person. When he finally makes it, he discovers something that shatters his faith at first, but over the course of the story regains it with a deeper understanding of God and the Universe.
Prepare for a shock. This is a short story I wrote in the sixth grade. I can’t remember where I was going with it, but it makes me smile to read it. So maybe it will make you smile, too. Chapter 1: Discovering Dr. Miya Helena River, a mind scientist, tall, blue-eyed and friendly, was…
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.
Written June 17, 2004: My Dearest Family, I’m sorry I haven’t written you since I left home, but I’ve been quite busy. Tom and I had a lovely time on our honeymoon in the Asteroid Belt. The many places to see and to eat are fabulous. I was going to write you when we got…
On July 16, 1999, I wrote this little snippet about a new character for an old novel I occasionally pull out and work on. I don’t think it will see the light of publication any time soon, but with a great deal of tweaking it could make for an interesting young adult adventure novel. The…
Once, while we were driving around in Tampa, Fla., a saw a license plate that I immediately jotted down. It was “WUD4OG” … Wood for Og. The idea struck me: Who is Og? This is what I came up with: Og is a 7-foot troll. He is kind hearted–the kind of person who rescues butterflies….
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