THE MEETING (a piece of flash fiction) The tall, lean man stumbled into the room. It was too dark to see much of anything. His squinting pushed his eyebrows down into the frames of his coke bottle eyeglasses. An eyelash got caught in the frame. The pain was brief, yet unwelcome, as he tried to […]
The Mirror (a piece of flash fiction) I once heard that if you stare at a mirror long enough, your face will eventually disappear; it will fade into one that you had in a previous life. The same people who told me this also believe that the world is infested with demons of varying degrees […]
The WRB Project I am apparently managing a rock band that is currently getting airplay in Norway. I say apparently because I know next to nothing about the business side of the music industry. I do know that many musicians are in dire financial straights right now due to the pause in touring. It is […]
An Open Letter (she knows who she is) Hello, I don’t need you to write me back. I am conflicted about that. [You can’t believe the problems I had writing the next couple sentences. No matter what I tried, I could not get them right. I have decided to punt. I will simply eliminate those […]
Say Goodbye Here is the latest from The WRB Project. This song is getting airplay in Norway. Give it a listen, I think you will like it.
The Immigrants (a piece of flash fiction) Rosemary had no idea what she was doing. The thing is: How is someone supposed to know they might get burnt when they have no idea someone threw a lighter in the campfire? It was just a simple request, more of a suggestion really, made to her […]
More Wisdom from Cliff Stoll As often happens, I write on a particular topic and then find something else to add a few days or weeks later. Well, it happened again with Cliff Stoll. I had seen his TED Talk, but I had forgotten a few critical statements he made near the beginning. This is […]
Kellen The morning was spent on his usual routine, hair. There…it finally looks perfect. He got the desired look, the one of a douche-bag, the kind that drives the young (and sometimes not so young) women crazy. Kellen climbed into his beater RV, not a Corvette or a Mustang. Sure, he could have just as […]
Cliff Stoll To a mathematician, I’m a pretty good physicist… To a physicist, I’m a fairly good computer maven. To real computer jocks, they know me as somebody who’s a good writer. To people who know how to write … I’m a really good mathematician! Cliff Stoll Wired.com 12/18/19 Cliff Stoll sells Klein Bottles […]
Air Effects: a second-person account of an individual who picks up an almost empty can of air freshener. You are in your upstairs library; you appear to be reading Proust. Your thoughts, though, are not on the text. Let’s begin there. Things seem normal until you put down a half-eaten madeleine and pick up […]