Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
One Million
I love how every time I turn around, there's a new "1,000,000 for/against [some random cause]." The latest I've seen is "1,000,000 against the new Facebook layout[1]." Why is one million always the magic number for these groups? In just about every case I've seen, one...
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Jim Stitzel vs. David C.
Here's a nailbiter of a game for ya'. We both fair a couple of tactical errors in this game, but when the dust finally settles, I manage to pull off a checkmate with a Rook and a Pawn, while he has two Queens on the board. Talk about making me sweat! ###pgn### [Event...
Fiction
Dirigible
The dirigible floats a hundred fifty metres above red dust and twisted metal. Engines that haven’t fired in a dog’s age are corroded and quiet, and the craft wanders the sky aimlessly, the shifting air currents the only thing now to give it direction. The giant...
Race
Grotesque. That was the only word Georgette could think of to describe the mountain of a man standing before her. The blacksmith-turned-airship-captain was a disfigured hulk, made all the more repulsive by the stub that was all that remained of his left arm. But she...
Deepest Regret
Dear Daddy, I can still feel the hole inside the day you left. It pains me greatly every day. Sometimes I double over and wish to die, the agony is so great. I don’t know why you did what you did, only that somehow I must have been the cause. Why else would you have...