Pet Names “That’s not bad…you should become an advice columnist,” said the handsome veterinarian, helping Abigail’s pet out of his own pocket at the clinic. When her teaching job dries up as her career begins, that piece of advice becomes the new way Abigail makes her living. But the person who gave it will hardly return the favor and take the advice: “let love into your life.” There’s your back of the book quote; it’s useful to have an end in sight, after all, LOL. In theory, PET NAMES is the title. Well, then, we’re almost there, right? Abigail (?) or just Abby to most who know her takes her sick animal to the clinic. Doctor there has a tiny assistant, his precocious niece Merriwyn or just Merri, with her knack for recalling pets by name and zeal to help at the age of five… Well, you can see the possibilities from there, friends. Now what I wanna do is weave in suggestions and hear stories from teaching, your pets, health care, or whatever life experience you feel like sha...

a pastiche fiction featuring the fantastic four The Vanishing Wave By Lue Lyron envisioned as a King Size Special tale featuring the Fantastic Four; each four pages come dictated by a different character, such as I shall present a profile picture. (A viking warrior and his two fellow travellers steps on the ice of a sunlit mountain side. A flare appears from a dark, billowing cloud, and the flash disappears down the crevice with each of the three falling vikings, with faces that range from shock to a mysterious non-plussed sang froid. Three large runes drift in space, intercut.) Awen: The ability to foresee the consequences of one's actions is the mark of a profound person. How profound then is my situation. There am I , known some only as Awen of Argos, on the verge of this break through. One step!--have you betrayed the rest? With spring came the brittle basis upon which w...

Photo: thanks for picking us up at the air port---and pointing out, "they're the ones with blond hair!" Conversation while harvesting Farm Town, September 2009 (in progress) ...like how things I don't entirely understand and certainly don't plan come together to enrich the story-like substance of my life 5:27pmDixie serendipity or is it syncronicity? I love it when that happens as well! 5:32pmDixie its like the other day when I was working out I had my mp3 player going and it seemed like the 35 mins were taking forever!!!! 5:33pmC Oh, righteous! 5:33pmDixie then the last 5 minutes (which were seeming to be the hardest..) the Queen song Bicycle came on!!! 5:33pmC Hey, long as I commit to the sweat, I'm cool...but I'm not gonna lie to ya, it leaves me feelin' pretty wiped out for a bit! 5:34pmDixie I startede to laugh and pedal harder!!!!! 5:34pmC LOL That's so perfect 5:34pmDixie it was....it made my day.... 5:34pmC I'm glad we have the pedallin...

Welcome everyone! This will be a lot of fun. I'm starting off with kicking the story idea that came together last night. Future blogs will feature pastiche fiction from commercially licensed characters you love and original characters, most specifically as seen in my upcoming novel TRANS RUPTURE. You can find further reflections and entirely original fiction on my sister column, be chill, cease ill. Our hero is grabbed as a teenager and transported to an immortal realm where all technology uses power from the sun; this dimension exists parallel to our own save for a special nexus, yet they share the same star as we. There he acquires a mentor, a rough-hewn, short-tempered and secretly, very frightened teacher, who reveals to him everything has been thrust upon him quite suddenly, and he now must grab our hero before his chosen time and hastily prepare him to be the last line of defense. Every guardian of the realm has been converted to living flame, unmoving torch effigies, ...