Golem100 is currently reading DailyLit's Sci Fi Channel and Grammar Devotional.
I’m 61 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since October 22, 2008. My reading interests include Hard SF, Horror, and Spillane type detective.
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Question of the Week - Literary Destinations
The Ringworld
Book Requests - Arctic or Antarctic Exploration books
Then there is "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft for a fictional account of an Antarctic expedition.
Question of the Week - Writing that Makes us Swoon
Across the table our eyes meet
Hands out of reach
A band playing
Tommy Dorsey rhythms and
Glenn Miller melodies.
I stand and step to your side
My hand held out
In silent invitation.
You rise into my arms
and together we move across the crowded floor
You rest your head on my shoulder
I pull you close and
as the song softly dies
My jacket retains the scent of your hair
Your gown the warmth of my embrace
Question of the Week - Opening Lines
It disturbed her how easy it was to murder a man.
Question of the Week - Opening Lines
While Jane tried to comfort the children, i stared out the window at the clouds reflecting the flashes of light from the cannons bombarding Fort Sumter.
Question of the Week - Opening Lines
On the morning of the day that the sun didn't rise, i awoke and found myself alone.
Question of the Week - Painting Your Portrait
Frank Frazetta. Or maybe Jack "King" Kirby.
Question of the Week - You in Words
Ray Bradbury.
Etc. - Film-the hunger games
It reminded me more of "Battle Royale."
Reader Challenges - 50 Word Fright
I keep having this dream. I’m outside, looking up, watching the stars vanish. There’s sound. It hurts to hear it. The ground opens. I look…down. I hear something… climbing? I lean forward to see. And I claw at my eyes and scream. Then I awake, to a black, starless sky.
Reader Challenges - 50 Word Fright
Juliette stood naked under the autumn stars, sacrificial blood drying on her body. Her hair was again raven hued and full, her skin once more firm and smooth. She opened her arms to the breeze, knowing she would be content, if only she could forget the screams of the children.
Question of the Week - Favorite Banned Books
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
by Anne Rice before she discovered vampires.
Question of the Week - Grammar Pet Peeves
Since i love to be pedantic, i have to point out that a single data point is a datum. However, I will admit that the battle (my personal battle, that is) over "data are" versus "data is" may be already lost. Just like "It's on the agenda" versus "It's on the agendum." Well, ok, an item may be on more than one agendum, so the first example can be correct, but i hope you get my point.
And what irks me the most about "data is"/"data are"? It's mostly people in IT that don't know which is correct.
Ideas - audio books?
Add another vote for audio books.
Question of the Week - Words that Make You Cringe
Speaks volumes.
I'm cringing just typing it.
Question of the Week - Grammar Pet Peeves
"the data is" instead of "the data are." It's like saying "The children is home."
Book Requests - Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
"The Shunned House" is available on Project Gutenberg
Reader Challenges - Twitter Tales
Revised:
In my office,a troubled dame.Took the case,followed leads,took beatings.Then,on the street,I told her the answer,held her in my arms until cops took her away.
Reader Challenges - Twitter Tales
Born in '12,at 16 Jim doctored in evniro sci.At 25,a politician,no bills of his passed.At 45,when the Rain came,he watched,from his glass shelter,steel dissolving.
Reader Challenges - Twitter Tales
Sue held Jim in his unform.His squad got on the plane.War raged.Sue got the visit,grieved,remarried.She held Bob.His squad got on the plane.War raged.
Reader Challenges - Twitter Tales
Grammy Dee,smell the tulips!Sue pulled Dee to the tulips.She knelt,sniffed,looked up.Saw her Mom,Dad,oh god,Jason!She rose on young legs,ran to them
Reader Challenges - Twitter Tales
In my office,a troubled dame.Took the case,followed leads,took beatings.Then,on the street,I told her the answer,held her in my arms until the cops took away.
Question of the Week - Words that Make You Cringe
dichotomy
Reader Challenges - Should Have but Haven't Books
Neuromancer by William Gibson. I keep telling myself that I'll read it next, then i come across another zombie novel, or Scott Sigler writes a new book, or I remember an old classic that I want to read or reread, or...
Question of the Week - Off to Lilliput!
Barsoom. If i could just find that cave in Arizona.
Question of the Week - Great First Line to Start Off Our Story Chain
It was a plesure to burn. (Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury)
Question of the Week - Great First Line to Start Off Our Story Chain
The espresso machine behind my shoulder hissed like an angry snake. (The Pale Horse, Agatha Christie)
Question of the Week - Great First Line to Start Off Our Story Chain
“It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.” (The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler)
Question of the Week - Great First Line to Start Off Our Story Chain
He woke, and remembered dying. (from The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod)
Question of the Week - Great First Line to Start Off Our Story Chain
It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen
Reader Challenges - What's Your Sentence?
She came and went and I was glad.
Reader Challenges - Shaking Up Shakespeare
And so, with pomp and circumstance befit,
doth Will and Kate their vows commit.
In sight both plain and gentle done,
in happy state become as one.
Question of the Week - Favorite Lines of Poetry
Don't stop to speak or look around
Your gloves and fan are on the ground
We're getting out of town
We're going on the run
And you're the one I want to come
From "The Celebration of the Lizard" by Jim Morrison
Question of the Week - Favorite Lines of Poetry
Also from Kubla Khan:
It was a miracle of rare device;
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice.
Question of the Week - Choose One Book for the Next Generation
Oh, I forgot. The Necronomicon by Abdul AlHazred
Question of the Week - Choose One Book for the Next Generation
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Reader Challenges - Looking for Limericks
I heard mine a long time ago, though the first line was originally less politically correct.
Reader Challenges - Looking for Limericks
A gay man I knew in Khartoum
Took a lesbian up to his room.
They stayed up all night
Arguing who had the right
To do what and with which and to whom.
Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?
Frack.
Question of the Week - Fiction or Nonfiction?
Science Fiction.
Question of the Week - Great Film Lines
"The stuff that dreams are made of." Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon.
"It's the things that people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid." The Stranger (Clint Eastwood) in High Plains Drifter.
"I say that's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man." Lucky Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) in True Grit.
"Khaaaaaan!" Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan.
Question of the Week - Dog Days at DailyLit
Fluke (1977) by James Herbert. A man, reincarnated as a dog, remembers his past life. Not your usual Herbert novel; no ghosts, no monsters, no horror. Just a dog coming to terms with having once been a man.
Books In French - Merci Beaucoup
Maybe some French translations of American books?
Reader Challenges - That Lovin' Feeling
Oops, Looks like I could read the instructions doesn't it?
Reader Challenges - That Lovin' Feeling
Just after sunset
fingers caressing soft skin
while the night is young
Question of the Week - Be My Valentine!
High school english class
Two rows up, one seat over
Damn, what was her name?
Reader Challenges - DailyLit Slogan
Daily Lit, the perfect fit !
Question of the Week - Special Election Day Question
I third Zaphod.
Reader Challenges - Your Words That Matter
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— for ever.
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-four
Question of the Week - What's Your Moby Dick?
The original Dune series. I've made through "Dune" and "Dune Messiah" twice but have never been able to stay with "Children of Dune".
Question of the Week - Back to School Books
Hmm, In college I read the assigned "The Child Buyer" by John Hersey. What I took away from that book was that people would do more for material goods than they would do for money. Also, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brody". What I remember most from that was that the professor teaching the course apologized to our class for making us read it.
Help - Kid's book about three legged machines controlling the world
There is a prequel to the Tripods trilogy called "When the Tripods Came".
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #77: Favorite Fictional Characters
Ah yes, Gully Foyle. Good one, morbius.
Question of the Week - Question re: Question of the Week
1. King Rat (novel by James Clavel)
Planet of the Apes (novel by Pierre Boulle)
All Quiet on the Western Front (novel by Erich Maria Remarque)
2. Planet of the Apes (1968 version only)
Question of the Week - Question re: Question of the Week
What book(s) have you read after first seeing the movie adaptation(s)?
and
What book have you read that you thought the movie adaptation improved on or was better?
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #77: Favorite Fictional Characters
And Dave Robicheaux by James Lee Burke and Kay Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell. I would love to see a cross-over novel with these two characters.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #77: Favorite Fictional Characters
How could I forget: Mike Hammer by Mickey Spillane.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #77: Favorite Fictional Characters
Ditto on "Conan the Barbarian"
James Bond (Fleming novels only)
Aloysius X. L. Pendergast (in several novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child)
Question of the Week - How about we...
How about we dress up like Han Solo and Princess Leia and go to ComicCon?
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #74: Merchandising Books
For "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" I'd sell scale models of a Vincent Black Shadow ("It'll outrun the F-111 until takeoff") that would play "White Rabbit" when you pressed the seat.
Question of the Week - Influential Books
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Beyond the Black River - Robert E. Howard
Reader Challenges - Your Words That Matter
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
Han Solo
Star Wars 4: A New Hope
Reader Challenges - Your Words That Matter
You can't tell which way the train went by looking at its tracks.
I use this almost daily.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #68: Autobiographies
trudimc: I guess I need to get out more. This is the first I've heard of "Up Till Now." I have read Shatner's "Star Trek Memories" and "Star Trek Movie Memories" though.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #68: Autobiographies
The only autobiography I have read is "Jay J. Armes, Investigator". It's a pretty interesting story of a kid who lost both his hands at the age of 12 yet grew up to be "the most successful private investigator." He rescued Marlon Brando's son from kidnappers in 1972 and is still in business today
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #67: Leading Roles
Bill Murray as Barney Hendrickson in The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison. I've read this book three times over the years and it's about time for another go 'round.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technicolor_Time_Machine
Reader Challenges - Before I die...
Other than retire, ride a bicycle from Spartanburg to Edisto.
Reader Challenges - Before I die...
Retire.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #64: First Lines
"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport.""
-Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Reader Challenges - Love Bites
We use Twitter instead of letters. Love bytes.
Reader Challenges - Love Bites
We met in the comic book shop where we both wanted the last Watchman trade paperback. We decided to share it. And now we share everything.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #63: Remakes
Needs remaking: The Running Man - O. M. G. The worst Stephen King adaptation, and that's saying a lot. Bears almost no resemblance to the book. Ok, there's a reality game in both that's "do or die", but that's it. Not Arnold's finest moment.
Perfect just as they are: The Dead Zone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085407/). Maybe the best Stephen King adaptation. As good as the book.
The Call of Cthulhu (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/), the 2005 black and white, silent film, based on the story of the same name, made by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. No other TCoC movie ever need be made. Netflix has it but it's hard to find otherwise.
Where Eagles Dare (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065207/) Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood in the same movie. How could that be improved on? As good as the book. Maybe better.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #61: Joycean Challenges
I started the audio book version of Ulysses but had to give up. It's not a book to listen to while driving. I may try again with the ebook edition.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #59: Authors Speak
H. P. Lovecraft.
One thing though, I've listened to a lot of audio books and I have to say that, with very few exceptions, most of the authors I've listened to do a terrible job of reading their material. Examples: Stephen King and Issac Asimov. The main exception, Harlan Ellison, does a great job.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #58: What I Like About You
Oh yeah, 4. The ability to edit your posts within say a 15 minute window of the post.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #58: What I Like About You
Like most:: The contests.
Improvements: 1. Threaded comments in the forums.
2. A "Thumbs up, thumbs down" scoring mechanism for contest posts (not visible to the judges).
3. The ability to vary the length of the daily excerpts.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #13: Love is in the Air (or Book)
Dejah Thoris from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Ok, I'm a geek, what can I say?
Reader Challenges - Encounter with an Angel
I stomped the accelerator and steered for the oak by the road. A pale hand touched mine and guided the car back onto the road. I stopped the car, shaking and crying. I knew then that a higher power was guiding me. I drove toward home to kill my husband.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #56: Looking Back on 2009
Under the Dome by Stephen King.
Hard to put down. One of the most fast paced books by Mr. King in quite a while.
Book Requests - HP Lovecraft
I recommend HPL's short fiction over his longer works. I'm reading At the Mountains of Madness at the moment (can't believe I never read it before now) and it's kinda slow going.
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!
Reader Challenges - Encounter with an Angel
I stumbled out of the alley, my left arm dripping blood. I staggered, hit the light post. My hat splashed into the gutter.
A heap pulled alongside. I heard a door open, a woman’s voice.
“James, oh God!”
I slid to the sidewalk. My guardian angel ran to my side.
Reader Challenges - Encounter with an Angel
(Edited)
I lay in a pool of my own blood under the Mid-Eastern sun. Through a red haze I saw a beautiful woman extending her hand.
“Your time here is done,” she said. “Help us fight our war now.”
“Who,” I gasped. “ are you?”
“Just call me Luci.” She said.
Reader Challenges - Encounter with an Angel
I lay in a pool of my own blood under the Mid-Eastern sun. Through a red haze I a beautiful woman extending her hand.
“Your time here is done,” she said. “Help us fight our war now.”
“Who,” I gasped. “ are you?”
“My friends call me Luci.” She said.
Reader Challenges - Encounter with an Angel
“Drink!” He shouted. “Drink, my children.”
His followers drank. Some willingly, some out of fear.
As Jones swallowed his drink, a darkness seeped from his body and took solid form. With his last thoughts, he wondered where he was, how he got there. Above him, the Angel of Death smiled.
Reader Challenges - Tea with the Queen
"Fqwwl y'engmm, mglwfftg mowll *" Cthulhu said to the Queen as the clock on the royal mantel struck 5 o'clock.
Translation: Pardon me your Majesty, but I must make a quick call.
Reader Challenges - Tea with the Queen
"Are you alright Mr. Lovecraft?" the Queen asked after Howard began shaking upon hearing her description of stars' strange configuration of the previous night.
Reader Challenges - Tea with the Queen
"Jeet yet?" Jeff Foxworthy asked the queen as she stared at him in complete incomprehension.
Reader Challenges - Tea with the Queen
As she gazed appreciatively at the mighty chest of Conan the Cimmerian the queen decided that, yes, he was right, tea was fit only for dandified Stygian wizards.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #47: Words to Live By
My favorite expression, I use it all the time:
You can't tell which way the train went by looking at its tracks.
Reader Challenges - Tea with the Queen
Oops. Forgot about the one sentence rule.
Reader Challenges - Tea with the Queen
I knew the dame was something special when, from the window of my office, I saw her show up in an open top horse drawn carridge escorted by some moke in an overdecorated military uniform that wouldn't have looked out of place flagging down cabs outside the Ritz. It was four in the afternoon and I was ready to knock off for the day, but the broad had said she wanted to discuss a job over tea in my office.
The door to the inner office opened and my secretary followed the doll and her doorman in. The doorman said "This is Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second."
Yeah, and I'm Pius the Twelth, I thought. Aloud I said with a sigh, "Ok Liz, pull up a chair and tell me what the Hammer Investigative Agency can do for you."
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #46: Childhood Favorites
"Lodestar, Rocketship to Mars", by Franklyn M. Branley, which I read in elementary school. It wasn't the first book I read but it's the one I have the fondest memories of from back then.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #3: Which books scare you?
The Shining and Salem's Lot. The only books that ever gave me the creeps.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #45: There Oughta be a Book
Driving at Night with the Top Down
30 Stories in 30 Days - Worthless and Weird or Wonderfuly Weird?
Just read 18.9. Enjoyed it up until the ending. Sounds like the protagonist rediscovered the William Castle Sound of Horror. (pun intended)
DailyLit's Book Channel - Ideas for Book Excerpts in DailyLit Selects
Cresswga: Much better. There are sequels but I haven't read them.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #42: Whodunnit?
Sherlock Holmes when I was younger, The Shadow later, Micky Spillaine later.still. Now, The Mentalist.
Etc. - Stupid Plot Ideas
This isn't from a book, but in the movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" the villian sends a fleet of flying skyscraper sized robots into the city to steal a generator. Now, if I had the industrial capacity to build flying skyscraper sized robots, why wouldn't I use some of that capacity to build my own frackin' generator?
DailyLit's Book Channel - Ideas for Book Excerpts in DailyLit Selects
The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen. Dracula's rebuttal to his story as told by Bram Stoker.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
In from the Rain and the Dark
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I looked up through the rain as the heap pulled up to the curb. The passenger door swung open.
“James.” Susan’s voice. “Randall told me where to find you.”
I looked at her blankly.
“James, it’s over.”
I slid in, closed the door.
“Us?” I asked.
“Just beginning.” She replied.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Circle of Death
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I sat on the steps of the brownstone, the rain dripping from the rim of my hat. The cops would be here soon but that was just a technicality. I’d found the killer, delivered justice and vengeance. I’d loved her and I’d killed her. It always ends the same.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
The Big Pay Off
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The Boss flicked the ash of his smoke into an ashtray that looked suspiciously like a skull fragment.
"Want the job?" he asked.
"No," I replied. "Already got a job."
He raised an eyebrow questioningly
I pulled my piece, shot him through the heart.
The ashtray made a nice souvenir.
30 Stories in 30 Days - Worthless and Weird or Wonderfuly Weird?
Susan - Thanks.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #44: Best Banned Books
On that list it's a toss up between Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse Five.
30 Stories in 30 Days - Worthless and Weird or Wonderfuly Weird?
Hey Moderator<
Is David Wellington writing these stories just for the 30 Stories in 30 Days event (kinda like those stunts Harlan Ellison used to do)?
30 Stories in 30 Days - Worthless and Weird or Wonderfuly Weird?
Moengey - Same here.
30 Stories in 30 Days - Worthless and Weird or Wonderfuly Weird?
Empress - Be sure to avoid his longer works. They make the stories so far look like bedtime stories for toddlers.
30 Stories in 30 Days - Worthless and Weird or Wonderfuly Weird?
3? I've only seen 2 so far. But I have enjoyed them both.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #38: Books on Repeat
Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove. White South Africans from the future deliver AK-47s to the Confederate Army. One of the best War Between the States alternate histories around.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #38: Books on Repeat
The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison. A desperate director and his film crew
go back in time to film "Viking Columbus". Hilarity ensues.
A Feast Unknown by Phillip Jose Farmer. Analogues of Tarzan and Doc Savage fight
it out for the secret of immortality while surrounded by violent death.
Killer by Karl Edward Wagner. A vicious space lizard loose in Imperial Rome is
hunted by a Roman trapper and, in disguise and unknown to the Roman, the alien
pit beast trafficker that lost it.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
Once again, need to be able to edit posts to delete "book are you" from above post.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #11: Your Questions
What book can you not believe was written by the author? My answer: "Planet of the Apes" by Pierre Boulle.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #41: Back to School
When I was in the eleventh grade back in 1968-69 my English teacher mentioned a book that was all the rage on college campuses. She said it was about elves, dwarves, something called a hobbit and a magic ring. I tracked down the Fellowship of the Ring at the library and have been a Tolkien fan ever since.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #14: Books You Hate
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut. I was a die-hard Vonnegut fan until this book. I gave it up and never picked up another of his books.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Above "Vengence" = "Vengeance" (damn spell checkers)
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
The Hunters' Vengence
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The dead girl’s face was a pale jigsaw puzzle. The cops stopped milling around the scene when they noticed me standing at the mouth of the alley, my fists jammed into the pockets of my overcoat. I knew why she was here. And now, that was why I was here.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Blood Stained Memories
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The door was solid oak and easily supported me as I slouched against it, my hands still tingling with renewed circulation. Benny and the dame were moaning in the room behind me. They had known more than they let on. Too bad they had to repeat it so many times.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
The Answer to all Questions
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“What’s this all about?” I said through bloody lips as I strained against my bonds.
“Beats me,” she replied wistfully. “Benny will be here soon.”
She caressed the strap of the blackjack like it was a Cartier bracelet.
“He doesn’t know either,” she continued. “Just wants in on the fun.”
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Dark Alley Rendezvous
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I leaned against the alley wall, just outside the cone of light from the street lamp. The rain soaked through the seams of my trench coat and the cold had seeped through the wet leather of my shoes. But Shelby always came this way, and a harsher cold awaited him.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
The, the, the, the. Really wish you could edit your posts.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
The Dame in the Shadows
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I had taken the bum low and dirty, heard him curse and felt his ribs crack. But then there was an explosion of pain in my head. I awoke slowly and noticed this dame, a real looker but for the expression on her face as she toyed with a sap.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Don't Count Your Corpses
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From the floor, I looked at the gumshoe as I bled. He turned as the cops crashed in, giving me a chance to pull the .25 from my blouse and aim shakily at him. A uniform shouted and pointed, the PI spun around as I fired. Then darkness claimed me.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Death Leads Out
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The dame lay bleeding at my feet. The combat .45 was hot in my hand hanging by my side. The smell of cordite and blood was heavy in the room. The crackling sound of a phonograph needle trapped in the terminal groove of a worn-out record was the only sound.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
The Stuff that Nightmares are Made Of.
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The knife was like the others, solid gold, ornately carved, bloody. It lay on the victim’s desk beside a black stone figure, bulbous head, tentacles, wings, also covered in blood.
“What the fuck is going on?” Chambers said.
Elena, from the university anthropology department, replied.
“Not the worst. Not yet.”
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Blades, Blondes and Darkness
The café was rundown but clean. Benny the Blade sat at the counter. In a booth, a blonde was reading. She looked up and I caught her eye, returned her smile. Benny, leaving, caught my attention. The blonde turned a page as I followed him out into the darkness.
Reader Challenges - Crime-Noir in 50 Words
Blood in the Moonlight
Moonlight filtered through the blinds turning the color of the blood on the hardwood floor from red to black. All the signs clearly pointed to murder, but I knew better.
“She killed herself.” I said.
“Yeah?” the lead detective asked.
“Yeah.”
I turned and left the room without looking back.
Reader Challenges - Summer Vacation in Six Words
Drove around with the top down
Ideas - Select top 10 from readers 6 word challange / 50 word story
"I second that emotion."
Etc. - Question of the Week #16: Favorite Female Writers
Alice Sheldon (wrote as James Tiptree, Jr.) Track down "Houston, Houston Do You Read" and "The Screwfly Solution" and you'll see why she was one of the great SF writers.
Reader Challenges - Classics in 6 Words
Gone With the Wind: The South loses, Scarlett window shops.
Reader Challenges - Classics in 6 Words
I, the Jury: The first time for Hammer time.
Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography
Wish I could stop looking back.
Reader Challenges - Summer Love in One Sentence
On the bay side of Edisto Island, where you can watch the Carolina sun setting over the waves, we sat on the deck of the beach house and shared the first kiss of the summer.
Reader Challenges - Summer Love in One Sentence
Her hair smelled of peaches and rain as I kissed her in the moonlight.
Etc. - 50 Word Challenge
Adama sat staring across the valley until the sun sat and the cool damp of the evening settled over his shoulders. Then he rose, stepped carefully over the rocky hilltop, and climbed into the Raptor. His goodbye to Laura said, he spooled up the FTL, and jumped into the sun.
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Tonight's episode of Battlestar Galactica was the series finale. This is my fan fic tribute.
Etc. - 50 Word Challenge
It was a long walk back from the altar in the forest. The spell failed, Yog-Sothoth did not come for me. It was childish, trying to conjure Him. At home, standing by the car, I hear shouting, crying. Tomorrow night, I think, the spell will work. It has to work.