ombie Alert! — Rural Kanpur is fighting its most frightening scourge — a mystery disease that has left a long line of bodies in its trail and doesn’t seem anywhere finished. *
     Jon Stewart: Rocks My World — In a breakfast with reporters, Stewart directed most of his ire at the 24-hour cable news networks, which [...]

aptisms - MrJames
     Everything around Thunk seemed to flicker, and afterward, there was no sky.
     He was still standing in the same spot, but the Carnies, the wolf, the women, all were gone. The patrons, milling about in confusion, were gone. The afternoon sky was replaced with an endless black abyss, devoid of stars or clouds. In [...]

     t’s that time again. We took a bit of time off to ruminate, but we’ve got new entries over at the Carnival, now, and it’s good stuff.
     The Good Doctor fights back against intermittent Internet access to bring us Slidescope, a catch-up post detailing the events between Becky and Dr. Celestine in his trailer.
EARLIER
     Becky’s gown was [...]

woke up yesterday morning, threw on some jeans and a shirt and my ball cap, lassoed Jazz with the leash. I led her outside, listening to the automatically-locking door behind me close. At the exact same time the door clunked shut with impenetrable finality, I realized I hadn’t grabbed my keys. I turned to [...]

usy, Busy, Busy. Oh, and Some Tears — Mr. James
     Eva ran back to the trailer she shared with Becky and slammed the door shut. She threw the deadbolt, too, and gasped in the hot, dark space inside. Sunbeams filtered through the gingham curtains Becky had hung, dust motes adrift in the light looking beautiful and [...]

     e’ve completed a short story over at the Carnival, called “Tales of Delgato”. The story idea came from the Coffee House’s guest poster, Squatch, and both Mr. James and I helped him out with it. I’m going to repost it here in one chunk (it’s long; you’ve been warned), so, for the thousands in attendance, [...]

     ‘ve been doing some re-reading over at the Carnival, and I think I need to do a quick revision on the last post or two for Alice before I can forge ahead. Apparently, Squatch is batting the Delgato story back over onto my side of the court for a finish, as well, as he’s not [...]

     ood lord, took me long enough, huh? But, here it is at last, my chunk in Squatch’s “Tales of Delgato”, for the Carnival of Souls.

Tales of Delgato (Pt3)

     Sheila stood up, wiping away the tears in her eyes and holding tight to the tiny piece of jewelry. There had to be a way out. And she’d [...]

     hile the rest of us have been sitting on our asses doing a whole lot of not much for various reasons, Squatch has been carrying the show with an extremely interesting story over at the Carnival. Picking up from here, Squatch has added Part II and Part III. This story shows a lot of promise, [...]

     r. James has suffered an unfortunate computer melt-down — literally, melted down — and is so unable to write for a bit. The good Doctor is also limited in his computer time. Squatch and the others aren’t the most prolific of our writing crew. Which leaves poor, sad, busy me. Hey, I’m doing my best [...]