Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
Leftover Grief
We would have been married 21 years this year. It’s a number that blows my mind, but it’s also one that makes me sad. It’s been eight years since we separated, seven since the divorce was finalized. And I still feel a bit of grief over what might have been. I don’t...
Disdain for Facebook and All Things Social Media
I've been writing a lot lately here on my blog. It helps that I can now generate unique feature images for my content, thanks to some new features in the Jetpack plugin I use to support my website. I prefer to write here because it's my space, configured the way I...
Of a Love for Speculative Fiction
I have loved speculative fiction ever since I can remember. As a kid I was reading on a grown-up level by the time I was in fifth grade, so I was reading novels by Dean Koontz and Stephen King, Nelson DeMille, and a whole host of others. Not everything I read at that...
Fiction
The Hanged Man
You find yourself in the middle of the wilderness. There is nothing around for as far as the eye can see, not even sagebrush, yet there is a gallows standing all alone, and from it hangs a man. Crows sit on his shoulders, picking at his flesh, little gobbets of skin...
Justice
It is a long, silver sword suspended in the air over a low altar. It gleams in the light, as rays of sunlight play along its surface and edges. A placard on the altar declares this the sword of Justice, with Karma as its close companion. Justice and Karma pair...
Wheel of Fortune
You spin the Wheel of Fortune, and your Life Map appears before you. It is a series of glyphs that represent where you've been and where you are going. The Wheel says it is about free will and fate. Some things are up to chance; some are destiny. And it is always your...