Jim Stitzel

Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of Words

Excerpts from Life

Chess

Chess is the game of kings and champions. It is an elegant game, devoid of chance, dependent only on mental prowess and strategy. It is a complicated game, involving thousands of possible solutions to capture the opponent's King. It is a game that I love. One of the...

Full Moon

"In the absence of the sun, I'll take a full moon." It's funny how attuned a person can get to the cycles of the moon. I'd never really paid all that much attention to what phase the moon was in - I never had much cause to. It took buying land and actually moving our...

Emotional Reactions to Stories

Either I have a cold, cynical heart, or I have a more (ahem) refined literary palette than most people. The reason I say this is because I frequently find myself puzzled at reader reactions to a lot of stories. For example, I'll read through a given story and then be...

Fiction

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