Jim
Jim cultivates interests in a variety of areas. He writes webcomics and the occasional short story, reads prolifically, designs web sites and graphics, and takes pictures. He and his wife are also first-generation farmers who run a 40-acre farm in central Indiana where they raise horses, chickens, bees, and fruit trees.
By Jim on September 3, 2010
It was a small memorial, only two to witness the laying of the casket into the ground. “So long, Jack. We hardly knew you,” one said. The other quirked up an eyebrow. “That’s it?” he asked. There was a note of amused incredulity in his voice. “What’d you expect?” A ghost of a smile. “This [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged burial, death, science fiction, scifi |
By Jim on September 3, 2010
He soared. He had always wanted to fly, and now he was doing just that. He had no feathers, no wings, but he was flying just the same. The special magic that fathers possessed had made this possible. He laughed with the euphoria of the moment. The wind blew his hair back, and he closed [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dark fiction, horror |
By Jim on September 3, 2010
Fog drifted, wet and heavy, over the short mall between the Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry and Stanley Coulter Hall. Six tall lampposts bathed everything in an eerie, orange glow. The hour was late, and the campus was deserted — deserted but for one. She stood at the south end of the mall, seemingly in contemplation, [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged campus, fantasy, mystery, university |
By Jim on August 31, 2010
PvPonline » Archive » Mark Waid is Right. Scott Kurtz weighs in on the state of comics, filesharing, and copyright. Well worth the read.
Posted in Asides | Tagged comics, copyright, filesharing, Scott Kurtz |
By Jim on August 30, 2010
I’ve always enjoyed old spirituals with their rhythmic chants and call-and-respond style of lyrics. “Awake O’ Sleeper” strikes as me as something of a contemporary-style spiritual. Awake O’Sleeper from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.
Posted in General | Tagged music, music videos, spirituals |
By Jim on August 30, 2010
Rain lashed down on that ravaged plain in furious sheets. The broken earth drank it up through ragged cracks that went down forever. At the center of the plain, a gaping maw of a hole sucked down water in great, sodden gulps. Perversely, gouts of flame licked up out of it, unnaturally green and purple. [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dark fantasy, fantasy, magic, monsters |
By Jim on August 30, 2010
NASA’s dizzying concept art imagines ribbons of farmland in space. I’d live in one of these habitats.
Posted in Asides | Tagged NASA, science fiction, space |
By Jim on August 24, 2010
Didn’t your mother ever tell you, “Make sure you put on clean underwear because you never know when you might be in a car accident?” Mine sure did. I don’t really know why it matters, though. If you’re in a car accident, underwear is probably the last thing anyone’s going to be worrying about. In [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dark humor |
By Jim on August 24, 2010
The albino stood on the platform and dragged the knife down his forearm. Blood ran in scarlet rivulets over his hand, his fingers. It dripped the sidereal pattern of his god onto the wooden planks around his feet. Before him the air shimmered as it struggled to call forth his deity. The hot sun bore [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dark fantasy, fantasy, magic |
By Jim on August 23, 2010
The place smelled like shit and piss. “I thought these things didn’t have bodily excretions,” I called out to my partner. “They’re not supposed to,” she replied. “For some reason this one does. Someone’s been hard at work making a clank that can process food the way humans do.” The clank was a junker, alright, [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged clanks, murder, mystery, noir, steampunk |
