Jim Stitzel
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Arthur on QR Codes
Arthur has something to say about QR codes in today's Sheldon strip: [Click here to read the whole strip.] The thing of it is, I don't think he's necessarily wrong. QR codes are interesting because you can actually smash quite a bit of data inside those little images,...
Vessel
This is a very nicely done short sci-fi/horror flick that capitalizes on the psychological factor of the genre and avoids unnecessary gore. VESSEL - A short film by Clark Baker from Clark Baker on Vimeo. VESSEL is a very ambitious scifi / horror short in the vein of...
Curveball Conspiracy
Some of the fiction I have archived here under my Stories category originated as part of a project several years ago called The Curveball Conspiracy. Curveball was then hosted on an older form of Blogger before Google acquired it, and it was the brain-child of one...
Fiction
One Side of the Looking Glass
He can see her there, standing just on the other side of the glass. She's next to him, of course, there but not here. He can reach out with a hand and touch her shoulder. She smiles at him. Warm. Affectionate. But also sad. Because he is not truly there. Only here. He...
The Peak
The wind gusted across the dusty peak, nearly knocking Zachariah off his feet. He pulled his weathered duster closer around him and pulled his hat down further over his eyes in a vain attempt to keep blowing debris out of his eyes. The townsmen had said the climb...
Metal and Smoke
He unfolds the cloth first, revealing the medallion hidden within. The face that peers back is profane and vulgar, but it is not unknown to him. It is the sigil of a creature whose existence has long thought to be past but whose influence garners followers even now....