Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
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...
Something I Never Thought I’d See Again
Gas prices under $2.
This Election Is About Obama
Purdue University is currently running a Vote Early campaign to encourage their students to get out and vote this election cycle. A great idea if you ask me. The student political organizations are campaigning hard for their chosen candidates, of course, and sidewalk...
Fiction
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...
The Logbook
The book lies on a table. Its pages are torn, tattered. The ink is faded, in places almost nonexistent. What ink remains, however, tells a chilling story. On the left-hand page is a diagram, the chemical structure of a molecule labeled, simply, Nightmare. Then, a...
Little Broken Gods
Germaine Ashencloake surveyed the wreckage of the room before him. Dozens of tiny figurines lay in shattered ruins across the floor. From what he could observe, each was unique. Germaine shook his head. A woodcarver carving in bone and ivory. Such things were simply...