Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
Monday Linkfest
* I do so love "XKCD":http://xkcd.com/505/. Webcomics for brainiacs. Nothing better. * Dave Kellett always "brings the laughs":http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/081117.html * These "Noel Collection iPhone...
Photo Shamus
If you haven't seen it already, I have a "photoblog":http://photos.shamuswrites.com. I haven't really pointed at it much, since up until recently I hadn't had a ready supply of photos to post to it and the content was generally pretty stale. Fortunately, my housemate...
Reality – Checked
Scalzi has a nice little "reality check":http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/11/05/reality-check/ over on his site this morning: bq. 1. It was Obama who won, not necessarily the Democrats. Which is why, while the Democrats gained in both the House and the Senate, they...
Fiction
Arrival
Eifan Craille stands quietly in the ruins of the old town, leaning heavily on his staff. He is tired, weary from his long journey, but he has come too far to rest now. He permits himself several deep breaths. The salty sea air refreshes him, but only a little. He...
Ember
It is the faintest glimmering of a spark. It floats in suspension in a bottle, the field it generates holding it equidistant from the surfaces that enclose it. It is an Ember, and it pulses gently, hungrily. It has memories, of a sort, quantum states that hold the...
The Coil
The encampment is little more than a desiccated husk. What remains of the few tents still standing are tatters of canvas flapping from poles bent and twisted by some cataclysmic event. Much of the ground here has been blasted into red glass and slag, but there are...