Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
If I Can Do This
There are days when you wake up with your brain already lying to you, when the regret and the pain and the hurt pile up on you so badly that you find it hard to draw breath, when every bit of your energy and attention is devoted exclusively to counteracting the power...
Here I Sit, Me In My Little Hidey-Hole
It's 9:30AM, and the day has started without me. I'm ok with this. I woke this morning feeling lonely and alone, as I often do, after another long night of dreams that refuse to allow me to get any kind of proper rest. I grudgingly ate breakfast, not because I was...
On Healing, Dreams, and Emotions
I am struggling today. I woke this morning from a dream I can't remember still somehow feeling sad and melancholy about it. This has been happening to me a lot lately. One of the side effects of the sleep medication I take (a must, if I hope to actually get a restful...
Fiction
Pocket Dimension
Where had she put her reading glasses? Had she put them into her pocket dimension without thinking and then forgotten about it? She raised her left hand and waggled her fingers. A small portal no larger than a grapefruit opened up before her. It sparkled around the...
The Room
The light pooled into the room for the first time. The room itself had been conceived by an alien race in the heart of a black hole. Then it was harvested, like a fruit, from that black hole, a feat once thought impossible. The room was then taken to a space station...
The Transformation
He thought it could never happen to him. But here he was, standing in front the mirror, sporting two, new, fully grown horns about 3 inches in length. His teeth had been reshaped into razor points. And he didn't even want to acknowledge what had happened to the rest...