Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
Welcome to v2.0!
Welcome to my newly designed and relaunched website. I have long felt that it was time for a clean slate, so to speak, and what you see before you is the beginning of that. I'm hoping that this new site will prove to be a launching point for some of my professional...
The Dark Knight
Grim, dark, and amazing. B_atman Begins_ was fabulous, an excellent reboot to a cinematic series that had previously been filled with corn and hash and cheesiness more aptly suited for the 1970s TV show than for the silver screen. It was a great flick to bring a...
IntenseDebate
IntenseDebate: A commenting system that rocks! A little while back, I heard the news that Automattic, the folks who develop WordPress, acquired a couple of new services. One of these is called "IntenseDebate":http://intensedebate.com, a dynamic commenting system...
Fiction
Creeping Cough
She had a cough. Deep. Wet. Ragged. They called it the creeping cough. Non-communicable to humans. Supposedly. And yet here she had it, and it was taking over her body. Already, fingers of the black fungus were reaching out from the corners of her mouth, which meant...
Cloth
Eifan withdraws his hand, shaking his head. “No,” he says. “This is neither the time nor the place to delve into such remembrances.” He reaches instead into the satchel slung at his side, rummaging through it and producing a small piece of dark, finely woven cloth...
The Orb
He inspects the orb without picking it up. He can feel the memories radiating off the thing already, and he is not ready to delve into them just yet. Unlike nearly everything else in the room, not one mote of dust rests on the orb’s surface. What’s more, a ring about...