Eric John – Part V

You can read earlier chapters here – IV here: Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV This multi-part story a rather new thing for me to try to do – it started with a Parts I and II keeping me up at night running around in my brain being crazy. So I had to write […]

Eric John – Part IV

Part I can be found here: Eric John Part II can be found here: Eric John II Part III can be found here: Eric John III Eric John spent the day with the folks from children’s services. They kept asking him the same questions over and over a million different ways. He wanted to scream […]

Eric John Part III

Part I can be found here: Eric John Part II can be found here: Eric John II After Eric John’s mother dropped him off for school that morning from the bus stop, she headed for her own job like any other day. Her walk to work each day was about a mile – it was […]

Eric John – Part II

Part I can be found here: Eric John Wednesday morning Eric John woke up late. His mother had not knocked on the door with her regular greeting, his door was still shut, his room quiet. With trepidation he rose from his bed and headed for his mother’s room to check on her. Her bedroom door was still […]

Eric John

I haven’t gotten much sleep the last few nights, I’ve had this story brewing inside my head and more and more of it keeps coming out. I’d be just about ready to fall asleep and another part would creep into my thoughts and I’d have to see how it played out. So here we are […]

Untitled Story

The water gushed into the streets of the town. Cobblestone streets and large block buildings with oval spires  began to fill with dirty liquid as the flow overwhelmed. Sloshing of waves hitting walls and belongings being swept away could be heard throughout. The force of the rapids took out doors and low windows, small vehicles […]

Pandora's Box

The story goes the ancient gods gave Pandora a box to protect and never open. But curiosity got the better of her and she opened the box which kept safe all the evils of the world. Pandora panicked and closed the box, leaving inside one thing – hope. I always thought that story was a […]

Writing

The earliest things I remember writing for pleasure were stories of Pegasus II and Cygnus with my friend Ted, I think we started talking about them in Spanish class (as we weren’t big on paying attention). We had characters that were partially named after Spanish verbs like “Jorge Dar” was a character. It was our […]

Making Room for New Ideas

I haven’t been writing because there are things I want to write about that I can’t post here… and I find that frustrating. I want to write about work, but can’t really, there are people that I work with that read this and we can’t have that. People sometimes take me too seriously and other […]

Curiosity

“I love you” he said “Why do you say that?” James asked Smiling down at the child he states “I say it because you fill my heart with joy” “How do you know your heart is filled, is there a meter somewhere?” the boy asks, looking at the man with curiosity and half expecting a […]